Asteroid Hygiea Could Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System
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A new SPHERE/VLT image of Hygiea, which could be the solar system’s smallest dwarf planet yet. (Photo Credit: ESO / P. Vernazza et al. / MISTRAL algorithm - ONERA / CNRS) Move over, Ceres: Astronomers using an ESO telescope revealed that asteroAsteroid Hygiea Could Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System
A new SPHERE/VLT image of Hygiea, which could be the solar system’s smallest dwarf planet yet. (Photo Credit: ESO / P. Vernazza et al. / MISTRAL algorithm - ONERA / CNRS) Move over, Ceres: Astronomers using an ESO telescope revealed that asteroid Hygiea may be classified as the tiniest dwarf planet in our solar system. Asteroid Hygiea, which was observed using ESO’s SPHERE instrument […] The post Asteroid Hygiea Could Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System appeared first on Geek.com. Read more