Kuiper-belt Object Was Broken up by Massive Impact 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows

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Artists rendition released by NASA shows an asteroid belt in orbit around a star. - Astronomers have pieced together the remnants of a mighty collision that smashed apart a planet-sized rock in the Kuiper Belt on the far-flung fringes of the Solar S ...
Artist's rendition released by NASA shows an asteroid belt in orbit around a star. - Astronomers have pieced together the remnants of a mighty collision that smashed apart a planet-sized rock in the Kuiper Belt, on the far-flung fringes of the Solar System.

In the outer reaches of the solar system, there is an object known as 2003 EL61 that looks like and spins like a football being drop-kicked over the proverbial goalpost of life.


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