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Science News for September 6, 2003


Solar system 'fossils' discovered by Hubble Telescope

Astronomers used Hubble to search for faint Kuiper Belt objects, finding only three small objects in a 15-day period. The discovery suggests that smaller planetesimals may have been shattered into dust by colliding with each other, affecting the number of comets near Earth.

SourceUniversity of Pennsylvania·DateSep 6, 2003