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2018 VG18 “Farout”, The most distant Solar System object ever observed
MarcF
post Dec 17 2018, 10:01 PM
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"A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System. It is the first known Solar System object that has been detected at a distance that is more than 100 times farther than Earth is from the Sun."
https://carnegiescience.edu/node/2428
“Farout” is at about 120 astronomical units, its brightness suggests that it is about 500 km in diameter (likely making it spherical) and it has a pinkish hue, a color generally associated with ice-rich objects.
Very nice discovery.
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Marc.
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- MarcF   2018 VG18 “Farout”   Dec 17 2018, 10:01 PM
- - scalbers   Interesting - a similar albedo to Pluto (with the ...   Dec 17 2018, 10:10 PM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   He is a link to the Minor Planet Center's Elec...   Dec 17 2018, 10:15 PM
- - JohnVV   for those Celestia users here is a SPICE orbit add...   Jan 4 2019, 01:53 AM
- - MarcF   And after FarOut... FarFarOut: https://www.space.c...   Feb 28 2019, 08:35 AM
|- - JRehling   Am I the only one hoping that Voyager 2 is coincid...   Mar 3 2019, 08:38 PM
|- - Steve5304   QUOTE (JRehling @ Mar 3 2019, 09:38 PM) A...   Mar 4 2019, 03:20 AM
- - tanjent   While hoping for a coincidence of that magnitude, ...   Mar 3 2019, 10:51 PM
- - djellison   Code could be written to process those images. Mo...   Mar 4 2019, 04:25 AM
- - Paolo   turning back on the cameras, scan platform and the...   Mar 4 2019, 08:25 AM
|- - Steve5304   QUOTE (Paolo @ Mar 4 2019, 09:25 AM) turn...   Mar 4 2019, 11:30 PM
- - nprev   Not gonna happen; there's nowhere near enough ...   Mar 5 2019, 04:21 AM

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