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A newly discovered space object called ‘Farfarout’ is the most distant thing in our solar system – Business Insider
It takes Farfarout 1,000 years to orbit the sun. Distant objects like this could help astronomers identify our solar system’s missing planet.
Astronomers have discovered the most distant object ever found in our solar system.
The planetoid the term for a small chunk of rock or dust or ice orbiting the sun is appropriately nicknamed “Farfarout,” after the previous record-holder, “Farout,” which was discovered by the same astronomers in 2018. After years of observing the object’s trajectory across the sky, that team of researchers announced on Wednesday that they could confidently say Farfarout is, well, much farther out than any solar-system…
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