As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

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The object is about 700 kilometres wide and lies nearly three times farther from Earth than Neptune. Its highly elongated ...

A newly identified dwarf planet, named 2017 OF201, has been discovered in the distant outer reaches of the solar system.

Scientists hunting for the hypothetical Planet Nine have discovered a potential new dwarf planet, 2017 OF201, in the outer ...

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The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region ...

The object, named 2017 OF201, has a diameter of about 700 kilometers, according to a preliminary study - It is three times as ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

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