Scattered disc
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The scattered disc is a distant circumstellar disc in the Solar System that is sparsely populated by icy small Solar System bodies, which are a subset of the broader family of trans-Neptunian objects.
Eris (center), the largest known scattered-disc object, and its moon Dysnomia (left of Eris)
Tempel 1, a Jupiter-family comet
Ceres RC3 Haulani Crater
Pluto in True Color High Res
Pluto
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Pluto is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known
Scattered disc
…System, since the objects are never close enough to Neptune to be scattered by its gravity. Those in 2:3 resonances are known as "plutinos", because Pluto is the largest member of their group, whereas those in 1:2 resonances are known as "twotinos". In contrast to the Kuiper belt, the scattered-disc…
Clyde Tombaugh, in Kansas
Sputnik Planitia is covered with churning nitrogen ice "cells" that are geologically young and turning over due to convection.
A multispectral Visual Imaging Camera image of Pluto in enhanced color to bring out differences in surface composition
Regions where water ice has been detected (blue regions)