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UCLA graduate student, team discover that asteroid is actually a protoplanet

By KEN OKAMOTO

Britney Schmidt, a graduate student in the department of earth and space sciences, published a paper in the Oct. 9 issue of “Science” arguing that 2 Pallas is actually a protoplanet instead of an asteroid, as previously believed.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5950/275

Published October 15, 2009
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