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This Tiny Planet in the Solar System Has a Ring That Shouldn’t Exist

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Quaoar has a weird name, and an even weirder secret.

Artist’s impression of Quaoar with a ring system.
ESA

There are actually thousands more planets in the solar system than you probably know, orbiting the sun beyond Neptune. One such so-called dwarf planet is Quaoar, merely 690 miles wide (less than half the size of Pluto), and 44 times farther from the sun than Earth (it takes 288 years...

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