Pluto has an x-ray source - which is a surprise and it is in the range of Rydberg energies from Millsean transitions from nickel and iron 200-300 eV.

Pluto is mostly ice, not dense - but could have iron/nickel debris from meteorite impacts over the past few billion years.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305713927_The_Puzzling_Detection_of_X-rays_From_Pluto_by_Chandra


Axil Axil wrote:

Does anybody want to talk about where the internal heat inside Ceres and Pluto comes from.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/pluto-alive-where-heat-coming

Pluto is alive—but where is the heat coming from?



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