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For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...
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 ...
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...
A new dwarf planet, discovered beyond Neptune and described as Pluto's 'cousin,' could void the hypothesis of a Planet X in ...
The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...
Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond ...
Researchers discovered a new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, potentially a dwarf planet, in the outer solar system.
Astronomers have found a new minor planet beyond Pluto. This object, named 2017 OF201, is quite large. It orbits far from the ...
The International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, which catalogs new moons and other small bodies in the solar ...
A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...