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Rare Dwarf Planet Discovered in the Outer Solar System
A rare “dwarf planet” 18 times smaller than Earth, has been discovered in the distant Solar System on an eccentric orbit far beyond Neptune, astronomers said Tuesday.
Dubbed RR245, the icy world is currently about 9.7 billion kilometres (six billion miles) from the Sun — 65 times further than Earth, said astronomer Jean-Marc Petit of France’s CNRS research institute.
“But its orbit is very elliptical, and it will be 19 billion km at its furthest point” from our star,” he told AFP. Its diameter has been estimated at about 700 km, compared to Earth’s more than 12,700 km. At the closest approach on its 700-year orbit, the planet will pass the Sun at a distance of some five billion km.
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