10-02-2018, 04:01 PM
"The Goblin": the most distant solar system object so far
A dwarf planet nicknamed "the Goblin" as it was first discovered around Halloween in 2015, is now known to be the most distant object discovered in our solar system. It was first detected using the Subaru telescope on MK in 2015 and subsequent observations using other telescopes have defined its orbit so we now know its roughly 80 AU away from the sun, more than twice the distance of Pluto (AU = astronomical unit = the average distance between the sun and earth = roughly 90 million miles). Its orbit takes the Goblin out to about 2,300 AU and orbits the sun once every 40,000 years.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-rel...2015TG387/
A dwarf planet nicknamed "the Goblin" as it was first discovered around Halloween in 2015, is now known to be the most distant object discovered in our solar system. It was first detected using the Subaru telescope on MK in 2015 and subsequent observations using other telescopes have defined its orbit so we now know its roughly 80 AU away from the sun, more than twice the distance of Pluto (AU = astronomical unit = the average distance between the sun and earth = roughly 90 million miles). Its orbit takes the Goblin out to about 2,300 AU and orbits the sun once every 40,000 years.
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/info/press-rel...2015TG387/