Scientists Discover Planet 'Snow White'

Astronomers United States (USA) says that a minor planet discovered by scientists to have a layer of ice and a little atmosphere.

Quoted by UPI on Wednesday (24/08/2011), nicknamed Snow White a small planet was covered by a layer of ice and have a bit of the atmosphere.

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology say that a small planet in the name of science 2007 OR10 may have a few layers of methane, the rest of the elements that make up the atmosphere.

"You will be able to see a beautiful picture of a planet that used to have volcanoes and the atmosphere, which is now just a cold and airless planet," said Mike Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology.

"Small Planet is on the tip of the limits of our solar system and half the size of Pluto," he said.

Small Planet, a distance is also part of a collection of icy objects at the end of the space in our solar system called the Kuiper Belt.

"We are currently studying the planet when" live "Snow White," Brown said.

"Over the past four and a half million years, the snow-white world was already there, and then began to lose its atmosphere. It is now very little of the small planet's atmosphere," he said.

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