Astronomers find ice and possibly methane on Snow White, a distant dwarf planet

Monday, August 22, 2011 - 12:30 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10 -- nicknamed Snow White -- is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice that once flowed from ancient, slush-spewing volcanoes. The new findings also suggest that the red-tinged dwarf planet may be covered in a thin layer of methane, the remnants of an atmosphere that's slowly being lost into space.

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