Anonymous ID: fb9e01 March 12, 2020, 7:22 p.m. No.8395928   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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>hundreds of new minor planets beyond #Neptune

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/new-minor-planets-beyond-neptune

 

New minor planets beyond Neptune

 

After many months of method-development and analysis, the researchers found 316 TNOs, including 245 discoveries made by DES and 139 new objects that were not previously published. With only 3,000 objects currently known, this DES catalog represents 10% of all known TNOs. Pluto, the best-known TNO, is 40 times farther away from the sun than Earth is, and the TNOs found using the DES data range from 30 to 90 times Earthโ€™s distance from the sun. Some of these objects are on extremely long-distance orbits that will carry them far beyond Pluto.