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17 July 2008
Dear New Scientist Reader, welcome to the New Scientist newsletter, which this week reveals that the asteroid Ceres could be a runaway from the solar system's fringes, why a plan to protect shipwrecks from treasure hunters might run aground, and why old folk don't smell so bad...
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 Is The Largest Asteroid Pluto's Wayward Cousin? Premium

Does Pluto have a lost cousin lurking in the inner solar system? The dwarf p***t Ceres may have been born in Pluto's neighbourhood, but travelled billions of kilometres away to its current home in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. According to a US researcher, Ceres is too large and icy to be an asteroid, and ended up in the asteroid belt as a refugee from an upheaval in the early solar system...MORE
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