10 September 2021
Survey detects 461 Solar System objects not found before
...a few new interesting objects, including nine new “extreme” TNOs, four new Neptune Trojans, several new objects with high ... paper. This huge haul means that it is the second largest TNO catalogue from a single survey to date, as well as the ...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
...in diameter, and would have otherwise been just another TNO among hundreds, were it not for one thing. Niku...he appears to be a part of a cluster of other high-inclination TNOs and Centaurs (minor planets), with some of the objects orbiting prograde, ...
03 February 2017
Astronomers spot a possible dwarf planet on the edges of the Solar System
... known as the scattered disk, DeeDee is classed as a detached TNO meaning that is has a dynamically stable orbit that does not get...objects within the scattered disk and other high-inclination TNO populations from the inner Oort cloud. Once identified,...
21 January 2019
Is this the end for Planet Nine?
...planets than for other less extreme trans-Neptunian objects (just regular TNOs). However for a group of them, at their points of ... Beirut, the duo modelled the full spatial dynamics of TNOs in conjunction with the orbits of the giant outer planets...
13 March 2020
Over 100 new minor planets found in new astronomical survey
...crop of discoveries are known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). TNOs are any minor planet in the Solar System that ...The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, represents 10 percent of all known TNOs. This is possible just the tip of the iceberg as ...
01 June 2018
Largest discovery of trans-Neptunian objects released
...recent research paper. The discovery of such a large set of TNOs therefore not only bumps up the number of known objects significantly,... the outer Solar System, such as how the formation of TNO’s ties in with where and how the giant planets evolved. ...
