Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun

christophilus

> They even found it in photographic plates from 1937 Pretty rad.

reenorap

Is this Planet X that they have been talking about for a while now?

ecshafer

There was a lot of negative press and commentary about "demoting" Pluto from being a planet at the time. But its obviously true that it was the right move, and creating this "dwarf planet" class of objects was correct. It was hard to justify Pluto being a planet when Ceres exists, but Eris, Haumea, Makemake and all of these other possible Dwarf planets are the nail in the coffin.

dvh

> The new dwarf planet candidate, called 2026 ED138, orbits on a plane tiled nearly 25 degrees I've noticed similar glaring typos in 2 recent articles. In both cases very early in the article. Is it possible that they are adding typos intentionally to mask the AI authoring?

dzonga

so there's potentially undiscovered planets in our own neighborhood ?

ddahlen

If anyone is interested, here is its orbit, my old day job was to compute orbits for asteroids and comets. (This uses wasm, meant for a desktop, and will download the asteroid catalog of about 65mb, you have been warned) https://dahlend.github.io/ketev/#t=2009-07-01.717&sel=2026%2... This is a big boy.

ajaimk

Could this be Planet X? https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planet-x/

vld_chk

So, this is another new candidate, different from the one from a week ago?

nntwozz

They should call it Twitter. (Character limit 280)

lairv

This is one of the reasons I think it's too early to talk about the Fermi paradox. We still know so little about what's around us in the universe We've barely confirmed the existence of 10_000 exoplanets in our galaxy, and the methods we use to detect them are heavily biased toward certain ranges of planetary mass and orbital distance As far as we know, everyone could very well be right here

purpleidea

OK but if we decide to make it an official planet, it must start with the letter P so that all the classic mnemonics work again.

gweinberg

Shouldn't we be giving dwarf planets names like Dopey and Sleepy?

hn_submit

Since it's at the outer reaches of our Solar System where it's very cold I'd like to officially propose to name this new dwarf planet Boreas , after the Greek god of the north wind and winter.

v3ss0n

ANNNNNUUUNAKI - Heckler Fish

zombot

The 1st image in that article looks like Celestia. It would be nice to have an add-on for Celestia once enough details are known about 2026 ED138. https://celestiaproject.space/