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Default Brilliant! Tenth planet turns out to be a shiner

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Brilliant! Tenth planet turns out to be a shiner

Xena, unofficially called the 10th planet, is the
second-most-shiny known object in the solar system.

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060415/fob8.asp

 




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