dwarf planet Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/dwarf-planet/ Astronomy author and speaker Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:36:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png dwarf planet Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/dwarf-planet/ 32 32 166732936 Planet Nine (and a reminder of what is and isn’t a planet) https://www.colinstuart.net/planet-nine-and-a-reminder-of-what-is-and-isnt-a-planet/ https://www.colinstuart.net/planet-nine-and-a-reminder-of-what-is-and-isnt-a-planet/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:39:23 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=2000 The internet and news media are awash with news of “Planet Nine”. For the last few years astronomers have known that some of the objects orbiting the Sun beyond Pluto appear to be mysteriously aligned. One possible explanation for this is that there is a large body even further out and the gravity of that […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/planet-nine-and-a-reminder-of-what-is-and-isnt-a-planet/feed/ 2 2000 Dawn mission reveals Ceres’s ‘white spot’ persists https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-mission-reveals-ceress-white-spot-persists/ https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-mission-reveals-ceress-white-spot-persists/#respond Tue, 20 Jan 2015 18:10:17 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1775 The latest image from NASA’s Dawn mission has revealed the same unexplained white spot observed by the Hubble Space Telescope as far back as 2003. Its true nature is one of many mysteries the mission hopes to resolve when it sidles up to the asteroid later this year. Some researchers suspect that Ceres has a […]

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]]> https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-mission-reveals-ceress-white-spot-persists/feed/ 0 1775 Dawn spacecraft snaps Ceres https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-spacecraft-snaps-ceres/ https://www.colinstuart.net/dawn-spacecraft-snaps-ceres/#respond Fri, 05 Dec 2014 15:34:50 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1754 NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is getting closer to the biggest asteroid in the asteroid belt every day. Also classified as a dwarf planet due to its round shape, Ceres is set to be visited by the probe next year. Dawn will start to make its approach on Boxing Day (Dec 26th) and will arrive around Easter. […]

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