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Pluto orbits in elegant arrangement with the giant planets

Soon after Pluto was discovered in 1930, astronomers learned that its orbit overlaps Neptune's orbit and that it’s rather tilted, compared to the nearly common plane of the other planets. Propagating its orbit into the past and the future then revealed the surprising property... click to read more

Renu Malhotra | Professor at The University of Arizona

solar system

pluto

Kuiper belt

celestial mechanics

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published on May 24, 2023

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