BREAKING>>> anomalous dwarf planet found in the Kuiper belt. density is lower than others its size. scientists redoing theories on formation.

BREAKING>> anomalous dwarf planet found in the Kuiper belt. density lower than others its size. scientists redo theory on formation.

Until now, most scientists agreed that KBOs of a size smaller than 350 kilometers across had a density less than that of water, whereas bigger ones had a greater density. That theory might have to be changed however as 2002 UX25 is the first medium sized KBO to have its density measured and it clearly doesn't conform.

some are suggesting that scientists have been wrong to assume that KBOs and the planets formed at the same time. Instead, it's possible that KBOs came first, and afterwards as the planets were forming, eddies formed causing KBOs to knock into one another breaking them into different sized pieces.


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