Something New Under The Sun......to Us - Another Dwarf Planet!

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This "little bugger" (about 330 mies across) certainly is a loooooooong way from the Sun, and it takes more than a "millennium" of Earth years for this dwarf to complete one orbit of the sun! 

SPACE.COM
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer | October 11, 2016 04:40pm ET

A new face has been added to the solar system's family portrait: Scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet looping around the sun in the region beyond Pluto.

The dwarf planet, called 2014 UZ224, measures about 330 miles (530 kilometers) across and is located about 8.5 billion miles (13.7 billion km) from the sun, NPR reported today (Oct. 11). For comparison, Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is about 750 miles (1,200 km) in diameter, and reaches a maximum distance of about 4.5 billion miles (7.3 billion km) from the sun.

A year on 2014 UZ224 (the time it takes the dwarf planet to orbit the sun) is about 1,100 Earth years. One Pluto year, for c is about 248 Earth years. The new object was also confirmed by the Minor Planet Center

READ MORE:  http://www.space.com/34358-new-dwarf-planet-found-2014-uz224.html

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ZOMG!!! It's NIBIRU!!!



Well maybe not

[rdunk]

ZOMG!!! It's NIBIRU!!!



Well maybe not

Good to see you here!! 

Yes while not a big deal in our solar system, this dwarf does confirm again that there is "stuff" of size waaaaaay out there, and it certainly can take a long time for some to just make one trip around our star. If this dwarf can do it, so could a
NIBIRU-size object............at an even greater distance!