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The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered (cnn.com)
Rick Zeman writes: Astronomers in Hawaii have discovered the furthest object in our solar system, a dwarf planet aptly named "Farout." This planet is 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun (120 AU from the sun) and is thought to be composed of ice. The object is so far away that researchers estimate it probably takes more than 1,000 years to make one trip around the sun. For reference, Pluto is 34 AU away and takes about 248 years to orbit the sun. Eris, the next most distance object know, is 96 AU from the sun.
And this is real too.
Farthest post!
Voyager 2 is also at 120 AU from earth, and is said to have left our solar system. So "farout" is outside?
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cease fire stand down,, it takes reason to defeat deception & starvation, the leading killers of us.. those dwarf's must figure the more AUs away from us is safer? in the moms we trust..
Not to get picky here but if it's 120 AU away from the Sun that 120 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun not 100
...farther out, you know they're going to name it Fartherout.
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I don't care what all these fancy people say.
They can go fuck themselves.
Gravity is so weird, there is nothing in space there that is not gravitionally bound. I expect more objects will be found much further until the point where gravity of nearest star tramples of sun gravity.
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... discovered the furthest object in our solar system, a dwarf planet aptly named "Farout."
Now when they find something else more distant, they'll have to name that "Farther Out" ...
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
>Eris, the next most distance object know, is 96 AU from the sun.
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that is powerful enough so we can send all our politicians there and thus the rest of us get on with peaceful & productive lives ?
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So the next one that is discovered to be even farther out will be called "Fartherout" or "Farout2" ?
Surely this is wrong. Sedna orbits out to 900 AU doesn't it?
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This planet is 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun (120 AU from the sun)
The last time I checked the definition of an AU was the mean distance of the earth from the sun. Which makes the earth 1AU from the sun. If the planet is 120AU from the sun that would make it 120 times farther not 100.
"This planet is 100 times farther than Earth is from the sun (120 AU from the sun)..."
Wouldn't that make it 120 times farther than Earth is from the sun, not 100 times?
And my Balls are synchronously orbiting a Black Hole which appears to every other observer in the universe as a Brown Dwarf!
"100 times farther" (120 AU)
OH, so the Earth must be 1.2 AU from the sun.
Wait-
The Sun is much closer. Just tell them it's the biggest, and that they'll be landing at night.
But this would not be quite half the distance it would be the barycenter composed of the mass of the various suns. e.g. if one star was 1000 weightier than the other, I would not expect the gravitational influence to be at half, but rather at 1000/1001 where it would roughly equalize. Thus I would expect the distance to be actually 1/2.1 about half but not quite