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Whats three times farther than Pluto is from the sun?

  • 15-11-2015 07:37PM
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    V774104 thats what:P

    New little dwarf planet thats just been discovered.
    The new world is tiny, much smaller than our own moon. Sheppard thinks it's probably made of ice. But the real question is how did it get all the way out there?

    One theory is a rogue planet was thrown out of the early solar system and dragged this poor little guy along.

    "If a large planet formed in our solar system and got tossed out, it could pull objects out with it as it was leaving our solar system and kind of drop objects along the way like Hansel and Gretel," he says.

    It's also possible this world came from another star system and ended up around the sun.

    Sheppard is trying to find out more by making further observations of the new dwarf planet's orbit. Those observations might also show that it's not quite as far away as initially thought. But even if it doesn't break a record, Sheppard isn't worried.

    "This object is basically going to be interesting no matter what we find its orbit to be," he says.


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