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An Extreme Dwarf Planet Discovery Challenges Our Understanding of the Solar System’s Outer Frontiers
OF201 spends only 1% of its orbital time close enough to us to be detectable. The presence of this single object suggests ...
Potential discovery of new dwarf planet adds wrinkle to Planet Nine theory
The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge ...
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Scientists found a possible new dwarf planet — it could spell bad news for Planet 9 fans
A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...
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A Distant Outlier Redraws the Solar System Map: 2017 OF201’s Orbit and the Limits of Planet Nine
The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute ...
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Astronomers Discover a Possible Dwarf Planet Far Beyond Neptune, Where There Should Have Only Been Empty Space
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
Astronomers Think They've Discovered a New Dwarf Planet in Our Solar System
A team of astronomers believe they may have discovered a new dwarf planet—just like Pluto—on the edge of our solar system. The object—which orbits out beyond Neptune—has been named "2017 OF201" by the ...