new minor planet discovered, furthest object orbiting the sun

Carawaystick

perihelion of 80au, orbital period of ~4600 years
estimated diameter 450km


one of the discoverers webpage on it is here
http://home.dtm.ciw.edu/users/sheppard/inner_oort_cloud/

guardian article here
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/26/dwarf-planet-super-earth-solar-system-2012-vp113

nature article here ( free and a reasonable length too)
http://www.nature.com/news/dwarf-planet-stretches-solar-system-s-edge-1.14921

Zubeneschamali

New thing slightly further from sun at perihelion than Sedna. Closer at aphelion. Not furthest from the Sun in any meaningful sense.

The linked Nature article is completely illiterate, worse than even New Scientist levels of uselessness:

The body is so distant that when Sheppard first spotted it, it was the slowest-moving astronomical object he had ever seen.

Apart from alll the stars and galaxies and ****.

xpletiv

Still about 12bn kilometers away, thats pretty awesome. 80AU Perihelion is staggering.