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A Distant Outlier Redraws the Solar System Map: 2017 OF201’s Orbit and the Limits of Planet Nine
“The object’s aphelion—the farthest point on the orbit from the sun—is more than 1,600 times that of Earth’s orbit,” Institute for Advanced Study’s Sihao Cheng mentioned in a recent press release. As ...
The Solar System has just gotten a new official member. Currently, with the name of 2017 OF, this is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). This means that it orbits the Sun further away than Neptune.
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
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