Mini-Pluto’ Is Solar System’s Most Distant Object

Mini-Pluto’ Is Solar System’s Most Distant Object

~!!!~The next~closest objects, Sedna and VP113, are roughly 80 times farther from the sun than Earth, well beyond the Kuiper Belt, which Pluto and thousands of other icy bodies call home// Astronomers don*t yet know if V774101 has an orbit that transits into the Kuiper Belt, or if it will be delegated as an Oort Cloud object// ~!!!~**It will take a year of observations to determine if the orbit brings the object near Neptune or not,** astronomer Scott Sheppard, with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington D//C//, wrote in an email to Discovery News// **If it never gets closer to the sun than its current location, it would be classified as an Oort Cloud object as it is well beyond the Kuiper Belt// But if its orbit brings it to within 50 AU of the sun at some point, it would be considered a scattered Kuiper Belt object, that is an object that likely scattered off of Neptune sometime in the distant past,** Sheppard said//