Kuiper’s ‘Easterbunny’ Is Speedy for Its Size
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.
