It did indeed turn out that way, because before the survey ended in 2008, they had discovered a whole host of things in the Kuiper Belt, including 3 new dwarf planets. There had been mutterings amongst astronomers for years that Pluto was really a member of this `swarm`, and that he was really just the first member found - like in the movies, when the first soldier is spotted before a whole surrounding army come into view. It looks like a swarm of wasps in a doughnut shaped ring around our Sun and planets. This is beyond Pluto and made up of icy chunks of debris left over after the formation of our Solar System. If you imagine our Solar System is a plate, they used the super telescope to look out towards the rim, in an area called the Kuiper Belt. In 2003 a new survey began at a super big telescope in California.(1) Astronomer Mike Brown and his team were going to examine the very edge of our Solar System, which is so far away we hadn`t had the expertise to search it in such detail before.
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