Hubble Telescope spots moon orbiting dwarf planet
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a small, dark moon orbiting the second brightest icy dwarf planet after Pluto in the Kuiper Belt.
Nicknamed “MK 2”, the 100-mile wide moon was seen approximately 13,000 miles from the dwarf planet called “Makemake” which is 870-mile wide.
The dwarf planet, discovered in 2005, is named for a creation deity of the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island.
The Kuiper Belt is a vast reservoir of leftover frozen material from the constru
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