Dwarf Planet 2012 VP113 Hints At A Huge Unknown Mystery Planet In The Solar System?
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - 16:41
in Astronomy & Space
We know the Voyager spacecraft has left the solar system. What no one can really say is when. Boundaries in space are entirely human vanities, there is no 'Now leaving the Local System' sign after Pluto. Well, it's all so unsettled that two percent of astronomers even decided Pluto wasn't even a planet. But no matter how we define a planet, the solar system has a new most-distant member, according to new work from Carnegie's Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory. In Nature, they report the discovery of the distant dwarf planet 2012 VP113 beyond the known 'edge' of the Solar System. read more