Hello students, In this video we are discussing the recent news where Astronomers found a ring around a dwarf planet, located in the Kuiper Belt at the solar system’s edge, called Quaoar. The ring is positioned much further away from the planet than is usual and defies theoretical explanations. This could be a potential question for UPSC. We also discussed all the relevant facts related to this topic which is very important for upcoming UPSC Prelims 2023 as well as other exams such as SSC, Railways and any exams where current affairs are asked.
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Ring around a dwarf planet lies where it isn’t supposed to exist: What it means, why it matters?
There’s a ring around this dwarf planet. It shouldn’t be there.
A small icy world far beyond Neptune possesses a ring like the ones around Saturn. Perplexingly, the ring is at a distance where simple gravitational calculations suggest there should be none.
“That’s very strange,” said Bruno Morgado, a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Morgado is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday that describes the ring that encircles Quaoar, a planetary body about 700 miles in diameter that orbits the sun at a distance of about 4 billion miles.
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