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Astronomers Discover Dwarf Planet Candidate on 25,000-Year Orbit


Named 2017 OF201, the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian object is one of the most distant visible objects in our Solar System and is likely large (about 700 km in diameter) enough to qualify as a dwarf planet.

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