Snow White Is Actually One Of The Dwarfs - And Is Red

Monday, August 22, 2011 - 12:50 in Astronomy & Space

2007 OR10, nicknamed Snow White by the graduate student who discovered it because it would presumably be white due to breaking off from icy fellow dwarf planet Haumea, turned out to be red.Well, it still turned out to be ice also but the surprise is it may have methane slowly dissipating into space, which means it may have once had an atmosphere.read more

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