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.

New Dwarf Planet Candidate Challenges What We Know About Space. Story by Ruta Kulkarni • 2h. S cientists have recently spotted a huge object far away in the cold outer reaches of our solar system.

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A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

But Sam Deen, a 23-year-old amateur astronomer from California, has already been able to track the dwarf planet candidate through old datasets. "OF201 is, in my opinion, ...

Less than 1% of this dwarf planet candidate's orbit is close enough to detect, which means astronomers are lucky to have caught it at all.

A new dwarf planet candidate, 2017 OF201, approximately 700 km across, has been identified in the outer solar system with an extremely elongated orbit extending into the Oort cloud.

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

Since the demotion of Pluto to dwarf planet, there’s been a ninth-planet-shaped hole in the hearts of many Earthlings. How will we remember what My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us now? Well ...