Re:Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Planet Beyond Pluto
by gohrt on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @02:09PM
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This is a really good physics puzzler.
The key point is that Pluto does not reflect light like a mirror, it scatters light relatively uniformly, causing more light loss to an observer than, say, a mirror that points the reflection directly at an Earth observer.
The key point is that Pluto does not reflect light like a mirror, it scatters light relatively uniformly, causing more light loss to an observer than, say, a mirror that points the reflection directly at an Earth observer.