Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: October 19, 2007, 05:29:25 AM »Here is a very good depiction of the planetary objects beyond Neptune. Note Eris, which is a body 27% more massive than Pluto and 2.5x further from the Sun (although on this picture its semi-major axis of 67 AU is shown, not its current distance of 97 AU). I wonder what else we will eventually discover out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TheT ... s_73AU.svg
Steve
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:TheT ... s_73AU.svg
Steve