New Dwarf Planet Candidate Challenges What We Know About Space. Story by Ruta Kulkarni • 2h. S cientists have recently spotted a huge object far away in the cold outer reaches of our solar system.

The dwarf planet candidate’s closest point to the sun is about 7 billion kilometers, roughly 45 times that of Earth’s distance. One trip around the sun takes more than 24,000 years.

A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun. The object, known as 2017 ...

But Sam Deen, a 23-year-old amateur astronomer from California, has already been able to track the dwarf planet candidate through old datasets.

A year on this dwarf planet candidate lasts 550 Earth years and takes it almost as close to the Sun as Neptune before plunging more than twice as far out as Pluto.

The category "dwarf planet" came around in 2006. Astronomers had found at least three new objects that were as big as Pluto (Quaoar, Sedna and Eris), and the International Astronomical Union ...

Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006. Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, researchers say. The possibility that an additional planet may be hidden far into the solar ...

According to a preprint paper that has not yet undergone peer review, the researchers found a dwarf planet candidate they've since dubbed 2017 OF201.

Home » Uncategorized » Estimate of 10,000 Dwarf Planets with about 400 candidates so far. Estimate of 10,000 Dwarf Planets with about 400 candidates so far. April 7, 2017 April 22, 2014 by Brian Wang.

While we wait, Brown keeps a running tally of dwarf planet candidates on his website. It includes five “nearly certain” dwarf planets, and a staggering 661 “possible” dwarf planets.