(15760) Albion
(15760) Albion (alternately 1992 QB), discovered in 1992, is the second Kuiper Belt object to be discovered.[1] Pluto was the first.[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Paul R. Weissman (1993-06-08). "The discovery of 1992 QB 1". Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 74 (23): 257–263. doi:10.1029/93EO00282. ISSN 0096-3941. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
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Eric Betz (2015-06-15). "1992 QB1: The first Kuiper Belt object opened a realm of 1,000 Plutos". Astronomy Magazine. Archived from the original on 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2026-07-08.
The pair hit pay dirt four years into their efforts. Pluto 2.0 came in the form of a 100-mile-wide (160 kilometers) world named 1992 QB1. Smiley, as they came to call it, was waiting 745 million miles (1.2 billion km) past Neptune, and astronomers hadn’t seen it before because it was thousands of times fainter than Pluto.