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Astronomers have discovered the "farthest from the center of the solar system" planet, which turned out to be pink, spherical and small (dwarf).
Unofficially, this planet was given the name "Farout", which can be translated as "The most distant", and officially it received the number 2018 VG18.
The pink dwarf was discovered as part of a program to search for a mysterious "Planet X" (not to be confused with Nibiru!) - a hypothetical 9th planet, the orbit of which, according to calculations, should pass somewhere beyond Neptune. They tried to find the planet since 2014, but so far its existence is only a hypothesis.
The pink planet is 120 times farther from the Sun than the Earth and its discovery was reported by the international astronomical union Minor Planet Center.
According to astronomers, the 2018 VG18 object is currently the farthest detected object in the solar system. The planet is only 500 km in diameter, and its pink color probably indicates that the planet is mostly covered with ice.
"At the moment, this is all we know about this planet," says astronomer David Tolen of the University of Hawaii, "And since it is so far from the center, it is obvious that it is very slowly orbiting the sun. It probably needs more than a thousand years by just one revolution."
The pink dwarf was discovered by the 8-meter Subaru telescope located at the top of Mount Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The opening took place on November 10, 2018.
The second object in terms of distance from the Sun is called Eris, and it is "only" 96 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. For example, another dwarf, Pluto, is 34 times the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
After 2018 VG18 was discovered in the Hawaiian telescope in early November, a month later it was also able to be seen in the Magellan telescope at the Las Campanas observatory in Chile. It was there that they were able to discern the pink color of the planet, observing it for a week.
Earlier in October 2018, the same group of Minor Planet Center researchers announced the discovery of an object that received an unofficial name. "Goblin"and the designation 2015 TG387.
The Goblin is 80 times the distance of the Earth from the Sun and its supposed orbit is close to the orbit of the hypothetical Planet X. According to astronomers, the proximity of Planet X undoubtedly affects the Goblin's orbit.
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