Tuesday 17 May 2016

Mysterious Dwarf Planet Snow White Much Bigger than Previously Thought

A faraway object nick named snow white is considerably larger than scientists had thought and is in fact the third-largest dwarf planet in fact the third-largest dwarf planet in the solar system.
According to the report Snow White is about 955 miles in Diameter rather than 795 miles wide as previously believed. This makes it the largest still-unnamed object in our solar system. If this new measurment is accurate, the only known dwarf planets bigger than Snow White are Pluto and Eris, Which are 1,475 miles and 1,445 miles across respectively;

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Fourth place belongs to Haumea which is 1195 miles across in the longest direction but has an oblong shape and is therefore less voluminous than Snow White; The 890 mile wide make-make comes in fifth.
However there is some uncertainty surrounding Snow White's newly determined size, the object's diameter may actually be as large as 1000 miles or as small as 814 miles according to the new study published in Astronomical Journal.

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