Ring Found Around Pluto Neighbor Haumea

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CygnusX-1

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Oct 11, 2017

A ring has been found around Haumea, a world more than 2 billion kilometres beyond Pluto. The ring is the most distant ever seen in our solar system.

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CygnusX-1 said:

a world more than 2 billion kilometres beyond Pluto

A new definition of "neighbor" perhaps?

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