Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the most distant object ever detected in the solar system, located three times farther away than Pluto and named by scientists as V774104.
This is a dwarf planet between 500 and 1,000 kilometers in diameter, whose orbit can not be clarified until within a year, as announced this week its discoverers at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society held outside Washington.
“We can not explain the orbits of these objects as we know about the solar system,” said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who led the team of scientists who made the discovery.
The V774104 is currently 15,400 million kilometers from the sun, or 103 astronomical units (AU) away, ie, 103 times the distance between Earth and the sun.
The purpose of the system Solar farthest found so far was the dwarf planet Eris, discovered in 2005, which has a moon named Dysnomia and is located about 14,500 million kilometers from the sun.
Professor of Astronomy Cornell University (New York) Joseph Burns said today that this discovery is “another example” of the Solar System, is larger than previously thought.
“We need a little more time to clarify orbit and determine the exact size of the object, but it must be great to be at this distance, “said the expert.
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