Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object In the Solar System (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Astronomers have found the most distant known object in our solar system, three times farther away than Pluto. The dwarf planet, which has been designated v774104, is between 500 and 1000 kilometers across. It will take another year before scientists pin down its orbit, but it could end up joining an emerging class of extreme solar system objects whose strange orbits point to the hypothetical influence of rogue planets or nearby stars. In other planetary science news, UCLA professor Jean-Luc Margot has proposed a new definition of the term "planet" which would allow for the inclusion of exoplanets. His metric is laid out in an academic paper available at the arXiv.

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i identify as a planet

[turkeydance]

and i demand to be treated as one.

Re: i identify as a planet

[Anonymous Coward]

You were born a moon and, by God, you'll act like it! And enough of this filthy talk of astroid drilling, it's unnatural!