{"id":3292,"date":"2018-10-02T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/astronomy-and-planetary-science\/?p=3292"},"modified":"2020-12-01T11:39:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T18:39:32","slug":"new-extremely-distant-solar-system-object-found-during-hunt-for-planet-x-carnegie-institution-for-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/new-extremely-distant-solar-system-object-found-during-hunt-for-planet-x-carnegie-institution-for-science\/","title":{"rendered":"New extremely distant Solar System object found during hunt for Planet X | Carnegie Institution for Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Washington, DC\u2014<\/strong>Carnegie\u2019s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues\u2014<strong>Northern Arizona University\u2019s Chad Trujillo<\/strong>, and the University of Hawaii\u2019s David Tholen \u2014 are once again redefining our Solar System\u2019s edge. They discovered a new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit that supports the presence of an even-farther-out, Super-Earth or larger Planet X.<\/p>\n<p>The newly found object, called 2015 TG387, was announced Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union\u2019s Minor Planet Center. A paper with the full details of the discovery has also been submitted to <em>The Astronomical Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>2015 TG387 was discovered about 80 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, a measurement defined as the distance between the Earth and Sun. For context, Pluto is around 34 AU, so 2015 TG387 is about two and a half times further away from the Sun than Pluto is right now.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the entire article from Carnegie Science:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiescience.edu\/news\/new-extremely-distant-solar-system-object-found-during-hunt-planet-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New extremely distant Solar System object found during hunt for Planet X | Carnegie Institution for Science<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC\u2014Carnegie\u2019s Scott Sheppard and his colleagues\u2014Northern Arizona University\u2019s Chad Trujillo, and the University of Hawaii\u2019s David Tholen \u2014 are once again redefining our Solar System\u2019s edge. They discovered a new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto with an orbit that supports the presence of an even-farther-out, Super-Earth or larger Planet X. The newly found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-astronomy-and-planetary-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3292"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3847,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3292\/revisions\/3847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/department-astronomy-planetary-science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}