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Nov 15, 2015 - 8:29 AM
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Solium
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"A newly found object may set a new record for the most distant dwarf planet in the solar system.
The object, called V774104, lies about nine and a half billion miles from the sun, or two to three times farther away than Pluto. V774104 is a little less than half Pluto's size, and like Pluto it may move closer toward or farther away from the sun during its orbit, but those details of its motion cannot yet be determined.
"That's pretty much all we know about it. We don't know its orbit yet because we only just discovered it about two weeks ago," astronomer Scott Sheppard, of the Carnegie Institution for Science and one of the co-discoverers of the new object, said in an interview with Space.com. The finding is part of a larger hunt for objects in this cold, dark region beyond Pluto, where scientists think they can find clues about the early solar system."
Source:
http://www.space.com/31100-most-distant-dwarf-planet-found.html
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