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and Vesta as full-fledged members of our planetary system. Today, when tens of thousands of minor planets have been discovered (most residing in an "asteroid belt" between Mars and Pluto), not ...

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The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

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