KBO

People remember Churchill for "KBO" -- "keep buggering on" -- and not so much for doing a lot of bitching about how Neville Chamberlain got him into an epic dunghole.

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But just as Chiron was not an ordinary Centaur even though he was half horse and half man, Chiron is not just an ordinary KBO (Kuiper Belt Object).

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For example, on one page, I found these phrases describing Nibiru as both a KBO, and red in color: * “Nibiru is a Planet X - class Kuiper Belt Object (XKBO)” …

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Years of planning combined with a network of telescopes to grab the first pictures of the Kuiper Belt Object KBO through a method of celestial alignment, they reported on Wednesday in the British science journal Nature.

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Finally, even if far away, once you get there, traveling from one KBO to another is feasible.

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They assumed the KBO was in a circular orbit and inclined 14 degrees to the ecliptic.

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen | Universe Today

This would cause a brief occultation and diffraction signature in the FGS data as the light from the background guide star was bent around the intervening foreground KBO.

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen | Universe Today

While Hubble didn't image this KBO directly, its detection is still quite impressive.

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen | Universe Today

The prediction is that over billions of years the debris should collide, grinding the KBO-type objects down to ever smaller pieces that were not part of the original Kuiper Belt population.

Hubble Finds Smallest Kuiper Belt Object Ever Seen | Universe Today