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Known bodies in the Solar System

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Saturday, March 31st, 2007.

BIG (and beautiful) image of all known bodies (88 objects) within the Solar System that are larger than 200 miles (~320 km) in diameter. You can see that the newly-named Eris is even larger than Pluto, both which are now officially called dwarf planets. Click on the images to view in details. -Quang-

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