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Where does the solar system end? At Pluto, most folks would reply. Or at Neptune, the cognoscenti might say, because thanks to Pluto's odd, egg-shaped orbit, the eighth planet has been outermost since 1979 and will be through 1998. But astronomers suspect that the sun's family actually extends far beyond either of these two planets. Out there in the frigid darkness beyond any known planet, they believe, lies the Kuiper belt, a ring of dusty ice chunks that surrounds the solar system. Beyond that, astronomers say, is the similarly composed Oort cloud, which forms a vast sphere...
...Kuiper belt ever observed. The body, known for now as 1992 QB1, is about 200 km (120 miles) across, and a preliminary calculation puts it at more than 5.1 billion km (3.2 billion miles) away. That doesn't necessarily make it the most remote object in the solar system, since Pluto retreats to more than 7 billion km from the sun. But it does imply that the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud really exist and that the solar system's boundary may lie 10,000 times as far away as Pluto ever ventures...
...discovery was no accident. David Jewitt, a University of Hawaii astronomer, and Harvard's Jane Luu, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, had been searching for just such an object for five years. Says Jewitt: "We were trying to understand why the outer solar system is so empty." Is it because there is really nothing out there or because things are just hard...
...want to fight ya," Tom's character, Joseph, meekly tells his burly older brother at the beginning of a fight. Then he proceeds to give the unsuspecting opponent a series of punches in the solar plexus. Many similar fistfights, filmed in rather gory detail, are interspersed throughout the movie...
Environmentalists probably had the most to celebrate. The House bill not only bars new offshore drilling for the next decade but also offers incentives for companies that develop alternative, renewable energy sources like solar and wind power. It requires the government to buy vehicles that run on non- gasoline fuels, including natural gas and electricity, and promotes energy- saving standards for private construction, appliances, electric motors and lights. Like the Senate version, it does not permit oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, which President Bush had wanted to allow...