Posted on 12/18/2018 2:56:36 AM PST by Candor7
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A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system — and the first object ever found orbiting at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun.
The discovery team nicknamed the object "Farout," and its provisional designation from the International Astronomical Union is 2018 VG18. Preliminary research suggests it's a round, pinkish dwarf planet. The same team spotted a faraway dwarf planet nicknamed "The Goblin" in October.
A newly discovered object is the most-distant body ever observed in the solar system — and the first object ever found orbiting at more than 100 times the distance from Earth to the sun.
The discovery team nicknamed the object "Farout," and its provisional designation from the International Astronomical Union is 2018 VG18. Preliminary research suggests it's a round, pinkish dwarf planet. The same team spotted a faraway dwarf planet nicknamed "The Goblin" in October.
"All that we currently know about 2018 VG18 is its extreme distance from the sun, its approximate diameter, and its color," David Tholen, a researcher at the University of Hawaii and part of the discovery team, said in a statement. "Because 2018 VG18 is so distant, it orbits very slowly, likely taking more than 1,000 years to take one trip around the Sun." [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
Farout is 120 astronomical units (AU) from the sun — one AU is the distance between Earth and the sun, which is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers). The object is more than 3.5 times the current distance between Pluto and the sun (34 AU), and it outpaces the previous farthest-known solar system object, the dwarf planet Eris, which is currently about 96 AU from the sun. NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft recently entered interstellar space at about 120 AU, leaving the sun's "sphere of influence" called the heliopause, where bodies experience the solar wind.
To be clear: The record Farout now holds is for the most-distant solar system body ever observed. That doesn't mean no other objects gets farther away from the sun than 120 AU. In fact, we know some that do. The dwarf planet Sedna gets more than 900 AU away on its highly elliptical orbit, for example, and there are probably trillions of comets in the Oort Cloud, which lies between about 5,000 AU and 100,000 AU from the sun.
Farout was first spotted using the Subaru 8-meter telescope in Hawaii in November, and then a follow-up measurement in early December by the Magellan telescope in Chile confirmed its existence. According to those observations, the object is likely about 500 km across, which would mean it's spherical and a dwarf planet. Its pinkish color suggests it's an ice-rich body, according to the statement.
he research team is scoping out these ultradistant objects to search for the gravitational influence of a theorized super-Earth-size Planet Nine, also called Planet X, that researchers have posited orbits in the extreme reaches of the solar system. The movements of several distant bodies have suggested the existence of this planet, which would be extremely faint and hard to locate.
"2018 VG18 is much more distant and slower moving than any other observed solar system object, so it will take a few years to fully determine its orbit," Scott Sheppard, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and member of the discovery team, said in the statement. "But it was found in a similar location on the sky to the other known extreme solar system objects, suggesting it might have the same type of orbit that most of them do. The orbital similarities shown by many of the known small, distant solar system bodies was the catalyst for our original assertion that there is a distant, massive planet at several hundred AU shepherding these smaller objects."
Ping to new planetary discovery.Besides, its Pink!
Niburu in Babylonian astronomy is most likely a reference to Jupiter. Sitchin was a crackpot who misinterpreted Sumerian writing for his own purposes, and Lieder is a crazed liar getting her undeserved 15 minutes. It is notoriously difficult to detect objects that far from the sun, but there are probablhy millions or billions of others just like it that we still haven’t found.
They shouldn’t name astronomical objects with hippie terminology.
Sitchin was a crackpot>>>>>>
Of course he was.
So was Tesla and many others.
But it is the cost of being unbound by paradigm to treat them with respect.
Whaddaya expect? The researchers live in Hawaii.
I think it should be called Melania.
Tesla wasn’t a crackpot. Sichin was. I know the difference. One aggrandizes himself by making up pure crap that only the ignorant can believe. The other doesn’t.
They are both crackpots. Crackpots lead us in interesting directions of analysis. I respect both men. What are you afraid of? That someone might achieve a new idea? That provocative thought should be censored? Go bark up someone else’s tree.
2x Pluto in AU.
A Plutino.
Waiting for them to find that large earth mass ‘9th planet’ that is gravitationally revealing but unfound as of yet.
Oops. Missed a zero. TWENTY TIMES Pluto in AU.
2 x Uranus in AU
A Urinal ( grin)
“Tesla wasn’t a crackpot. Sichin was. I know the difference. “
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IMHO...Just researchers with unique POVs outside of mainstream science...
Well, maybe Nancy Lieder is a crackpot? She claims to be telepathic with the Zetas!
No chance of telepathic intruders in the universe, I guess! ;-)
Some people just believe whatever they want because it’s a pleasant illusion. I have no problem with them. But there are others who capitalize on that and sell them pleasant falsehoods, feeding on their ignorance and making them more ignorant as a result. Those I have a problem with. They’re not just crackpots, they are liars. When you lie, you serve the father of lies. When you believe those lies, you are in part a follower. And I’ll say as much because it’s my right.
Lieder recommended on air that people kill their pets before the 2003 end of the world. Some did. There is at least one person who killed themself over her insane predictions. She is a liar who’s predictions have all come up false because of it. But she got her little bit of fame and that’s all she cares about.
I am not arguing the point, but I must admit that the Sumerian depiction of the solar system was pretty accurate for a culture that had no telescope.
I would like to now what that particular carving was supposed to be - if not the solar system.
Niburu most likely was a long-period comet which broke up and is now the Taurid meteor shower. Interestingly, it’s fragments may have caused the impact event which ended the Sumerian civilization and decimated other Bronge Age civilizations.
I’m still amazed that there’s a ring around Uranus.
Did you just compare Zecharia Sitchin to Nikola Tesla?
Too much time listening to “Coast to Coast”. ;o)
Some will say it's Arabic, pronounced "Fa-ROOT"
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