Astronomers Just Discovered a Tiny Planet Heading Toward Our Inner Solar System - Interesting Engineering

Sadly Brad Bergan's dispatch doesn't concern an angry Pluto making its way sunward to exact revenge upon Mike Brown and the International Astronomical Union. Rather a different, icy object is fast approaching Uranus's orbit and could probably get as close as Saturn in (checks watch) ten years. In the meantime, Brad has oodles of details for you astronomy nerds and woo-woo types. While a tiny "planet" is exciting news, the absence of planets is also perplexing stargazers As Dscoveries Pile Up, A Gap Appears In The Pattern. The galaxy is lousy with superearths, the cosmological equivalent of McMansions, are everywhere while more reasonably-sized, and affordably-priced, planets are scarce as hen's teeth writes Rebecca Boyle. The curious bit about the "Fulton Gap" is how Earth's telescopes are capable of detecting smaller planets, yet the gap exists and suggests something very strange about planetology and the universe. (CS)

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