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Originally Posted by m1omg
Helium cannot freeze solid at atmospheric pressure or in vacuum at all, but I wonder; could it be the component of some KBOs interiors where it is frozen by high pressure along with lowe temperature?
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Compression tends to heat stuff (it's the gas law), so I would not expect a lower temperature in the center of a KBO.
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