This rocky goliath could one day cross the orbit of Neptune and become one of the biggest comets ever known.
The findings, detailed in the March 15 issue of the journal Nature, mark the first "collisional family" detected in the Kuiper Belt and provide new insights about the solar systemâ??s murky history.
The Kuiper Belt is a vast expanse of space located beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is littered with rocky and icy bodies believed to be vestiges of the primordial disk from which the planets formed.
