Kuiper’s ‘Easterbunny’ Is Speedy for Its Size
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From Times Staff and Wire Reports
One of three large objects discovered within the last year in the Kuiper Belt region of the solar system is particularly bizarre: a cigar-shaped body whose long axis is about the same length as Pluto’s diameter, Caltech astronomer Michael Brown said.
The object, nicknamed Easterbunny, rotates with a four-hour period, much faster than any other large body in the solar system.
