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If Earth-based telescopes can resolve angles down to 0.25 arcsec, how large could a trans-Neptunian object be at Pluto’s average distance from the Sun and still not present a resolvable disk?

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Chapter12: Rings, Moons, And Pluto

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Problem 23E: How close to Uranus would a spacecraft have to get to obtain the same resolution as in Example 12.1...

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