Dwarf planet or huge asteroid, this is the status of Pluto
News24xx.com - Dwarf planet or Big asteroid Or just an object inside Kuiper belt? The researcher now has an answer as to what exactly Pluto's current status is.
Researchers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a Texas-based nonprofit organization, merged data from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) to explain what Pluto's current status is, once the spacecraft is no longer recognized as a planet. According to them, Pluto is a giant comet.
"We have developed a model of Pluto's space chemistry formation, and we call it a gigantic comet" said Dr. Christopher Glein, one of the researchers from SwRI, as quoted from CNET, on Friday, May 25th 2018.
The team found a large nitrogen-rich glacier on the surface of Pluto. They named it with Sputnik Planitia. They think the coating has a similar composition to what was discovered by Rosetta, ESA's spacecraft, while on a comet mission called 67P.
"We found an interesting consistency between estimates of the amount of nitrogen in the glacier with the amount that Pluto might have if it were formed by a combined of about one billion comets or objects in the other Kuiper Belt" Glein said.
In addition, the research team is also measuring the possibility of whether Pluto is made of very cold ice. According to them, although there are still many mysteries that covers the former planet, the idea of ??the formation of Pluto from billions of ancient comets as its core has its own possibilities.
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