The new planet takes 700 years to complete one orbit around the Sun
An international team of astronomers announced today the discovery of another dwarf planet in the solar system whose orbit has the farthest to 19 billion kilometers from the sun.
Provisionally named RR245, nano-planet has an approximately diameter 700 kilometers and is one of the largest orbits for these dimensions, according to the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, the French acronym) of France, one of the team members.
in orbit the CNRS ranked as unlikely and that the planet takes 700 years to complete, sunlight takes 18.5 earth hours to reach the surface of the RR245.
the star, discovered in the Kuiper Belt, was detected for the first time a telescope located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, last February, from originating images in September 2015.
it is “one of the few dwarf planets that survived to the present day, as Pluto and Eris , the largest known dwarf planets, “the CNRS.
was only observed for a year, the scientists say they do not know its origins and how it will evolve into orbit in the future, but admit its size and brightness allow be studied to draw more conclusions about the solar system.
the research team says that the vast majority of dwarf planets was created during the chaos caused when the giant planets moved to take the current positions.
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