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  • 'Farout!' Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted

    12/18/2018 2:56:36 AM PST · by Candor7 · 39 replies
    SPACE.com ^ | December 17, 2018 01:00pm ET | Sarah Lewin, Space.com Associate Editor
    ( Video at Link) A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system — and the first object ever found orbiting at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun. The discovery team nicknamed the object "Farout," and its provisional designation from the International Astronomical Union is 2018 VG18. Preliminary research suggests it's a round, pinkish dwarf planet. The same team spotted a faraway dwarf planet nicknamed "The Goblin" in October. A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system — and the first object ever found...
  • Newfound Dwarf Planet 'The Goblin' May Lead to Mysterious Planet Nine

    10/02/2018 4:03:38 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 22 replies
    Space.com ^ | October 2, 2018 10:01am ET | Mike Wall,
    2015 TG387, a newfound object in the far outer solar system, way beyond Pluto. The orbit of 2015 TG387 shares peculiarities with those of other extremely far-flung bodies, which appear to have been shaped by the gravity of a very large object in that distant, frigid realm — the hypothesized Planet Nine, also known as Planet X. "These distant objects are like breadcrumbs leading us to Planet X," And 2015 TG387 is special among these bread crumbs, because it was found during a relatively uniform survey of the northern and southern skies rather than a targeted hunt for clustered objects...
  • 'Farout!' Newfound Object Is the Farthest Solar System Body Ever Spotted

    12/17/2018 1:54:59 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 28 replies
    Space.com ^ | December 17, 2018 01:00pm ET | Sarah Lewin,
    The discovery team nicknamed the object "Farout," and its provisional designation from the International Astronomical Union is 2018 VG18. Preliminary research suggests it's a round, pinkish dwarf planet. The same team spotted a faraway dwarf planet nicknamed "The Goblin" in October. The object is more than 3.5 times the current distance between Pluto and the sun (34 AU), and it outpaces the previous farthest-known solar system object, the dwarf planet Eris, which is currently about 96 AU from the sun. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft recently entered interstellar space at about 120 AU, leaving the sun's "sphere of influence" called the...
  • Outer solar system experts find 'far out there' dwarf planet

    12/17/2018 10:02:52 AM PST · by ETL · 21 replies
    Phys.org ^ | Dec 17, 2018 | Carnegie Institution for Science
    A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. ..." The Magellan observations confirmed that 2018 VG18 is around 120 AU, making it the first Solar System object observed beyond 100 AU. Its brightness suggests that it is about 500 km in diameter, likely making it spherical in shape and a dwarf planet."