Atmosphere found around outer solar system object that shouldn't have one

Japanese astronomers have found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a small body in the outer solar system for the first time. They detected it around 2002 XV93, a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in Kuiper Belt. The object, roughly 500 km in diameter, was long thought too small to retain an atmosphere due to its weak gravity and frigid temperatures.

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