The Solar System contains many small, unexplored worlds in a vast region of space beyond Neptune and Pluto. Recent discoveries include dwarf planets and smaller Kuiper Belt objects, and astronomers are searching for a new large planet that may orbit 700 times farther from the Sun than the Earth.
Join us on Facebook Live as geologist Ross Irwin from the Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies talks about the solar system beyond Pluto.
Image: Artist’s illustration of a view of our sun from an unknown outpost planet at the fringes of our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
