NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected.
If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks would… [+5383 chars]
Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video) - Space.com
"The universe is filled with a range of three-body systems, including the closest stars to Earth, the Alpha Centauri star system, and we're finding that the Kuiper Belt may be no exception!"
By:Robert Lea
Source:Space.com
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