“It just dropped in?<\/i>” says Rasmussen blankly.<\/p>\n
“Figure of speech, sir,” says a Whitecoat. “But it does seem to have, ah, plonked right into the Kuiper gap.”<\/p>\n
“Two satellites, you said.” Rasmussen scrabbles through spectroscopy printouts. “Composed of–you’re joking.”<\/p>\n
“No sir. Ninety-eight percent lead, sir.”<\/p>\n
“But the damn thing’s a gas giant!” Rasmussen says. “Unless its core is all heavy metals–”<\/p>\n
“Looks like the core’s iron,” says the Whitecoat. “And it’s shaped like–well, you should probably see it yourself, sir.”<\/p>\n
He passes over the Röntgen print. Rasmussen squints, turns it sideways, stops.<\/p>\n
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