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past all of the rocky inner worlds and
the mighty gas giants the dwarf planet
Pluto can be found
at its most distant point it is 4.6
billion miles away from Earth but
although Pluto is extremely far away it
is not the last world in our solar
system traveling further into the outer
reaches reveals many more strange and
mysterious objects that have been
discovered hiding in the darkness of
space so let's travel beyond the icy
world Pluto and find out what's lurking
at the edge of the solar system
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the first known object beyond Pluto is
how mere a mysterious dwarf planet that
orbits the Sun more than four billion
miles away taking sunlight six hours to
get to it
named after the Hawaiian goddess of
childbirth the distant world is located
in a region known as the Kuiper belt a
disc shaped area that extends around 25
au from Neptune within this region it is
estimated that there are trillions of
small icy objects plus many more dwarf
planets but how Mia is one of the more
unique objects discovered in the Kuiper
belt so far because it is shaped like an
egg has two moons and an icy ring the
dwarf planet takes 284 earth years to
make one trip around the Sun and is one
of the fastest spinning and large
objects in the solar system it is
thought that how me as unusual body is
caused by it's super fast rotation one
day on how Mir only takes 3.9 earth
hours resulting in its sides bulging
into an elongated shape making it the
least spiracle of the known dwarf
planets the mysterious world measures
around 1430 miles across at its axis but
is only 619 miles wide it is possible
that a massive impact billions of years
ago caused how Mia's rapid spin and also
created its two moons na maka and hyakka
astronomers believe that how Mir is made
of rock with a coating of ice and is the
first known Kuiper belt object to have a
surrounding ring how Mir also has a dark
red spot which stands out on its white
icy surface it is thought that this spot
could be an area of complex molecules
that may include organic tholins that
can cause rich colors such as a deep
blood-red similar to what can be found
on the surface of Pluto
although the dwarf planet has been
observed from ground-based telescopes on
earth very little is known about this
strange egg-shaped world due to its
colossal distance from the Sun but if
astronomers have discovered a world
shaped like an egg what else might be
lurking in this dark largely uncharted
region of the solar system I hope you
enjoyed your journey to the fringes of
our solar system if you did then please
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