Identify more distant space object in the solar system – Azteca News

Washington, EUA.- astronomers announced they had found the object space most distant ever seen in the System Plot , an icy world that is 103 times farther from the Sun than the Earth, beyond the Kuiper Belt.

The location of this object, which is located within the inner margins of System Plot exterior, makes it the most distant known so far as it breaks the record previously held by the dwarf planet Eris, which is 97 times the Sun-Earth distance.

The star, designated V774101, is between 500 and a thousand kilometers in diameter, said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC, to present the findings at a meeting of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society American.

object was located about 15 thousand 500 million kilometers in the Oort Cloud, which is three times farther away than Pluto, and just its extreme position the body It could be of scientific importance, but it will take at least one year so that it can determine its orbit.

Scientists estimate that V774101 could eventually join an emerging class of objects end System Plot whose strange orbits point to the hypothetical influence of rogue planets or nearby stars.

Astronomers have not followed the newly discovered object during enough to know its full orbit time, but there is a possibility that travel much closer to the Sun than the actual distance, which would facilitate their work.

This discovery gives a rare glimpse into the periphery of system Plot . Only two worlds are known in the inner Oort cloud: an object called Sedna and another known as 2012 VP 113, said Michael Brown, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena

Neither Sedna or VP. 113 is closer to the Sun, and if the world does not newly discovered, then join the other two fascinating objects that reside in the Oort cloud.

But if the object it moves toward the Sun, crossing the Kuiper Belt, will join the ranks of many other inhabitants of this region, whose orbits are particularly widespread due to the gravitational influence of Neptune.

object was discovered through the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii and the researchers plan to look again next week using the Magellan telescopes in Chile, and then in a year to calculate its orbit.