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General Category => News => Topic started by: diddly on October 02, 2018, 10:21:41 AM

Title: Goblin Planet in our Solar System
Post by: diddly on October 02, 2018, 10:21:41 AM

Astronomers have newly discovered a distant planet orbiting our sun (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06885-1).  It's a dwarf planet nicknamed "The Goblin", and its orbit supports (but not proves) the existence of a ninth giant planet.

To get a sense of how far out this thing is, it's 65x the distance from the Earth to the Sun, or 2x the distance of Pluto from the Sun.