and comes in as close as 27 astronomical units, inside the orbit of Neptune.” “This means that the object could help us better understand the planets of the outer Solar System,” the report ...

2017 OF 201 was initially spotted at a distance of 90.5 astronomical units, more than twice ... rocks and ice that surrounds the Solar System at its very outer limits. We don't know how this ...

Alien planets captured by our sun's gravity could could hide in the shadows of the outer solar system. (Image credit: Wikimedia Commons reproduced under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0) Some ...

The results, which are important for an understanding of the formation of the solar system, were obtained ... located at distances of 30–55 astronomical units (au) from the sun (1 au corresponds ...

With the outer solar system surveys at Mauna Kea and La Palma ... as far as 970 times the Sun-Earth distance (known as an astronomical unit or AU) before coming back in for a close approach ...

(Nanowerk News) Observations of the outer Solar System with the Subaru Telescope have discovered ... The horizontal axis represents the distance from the Sun to the objects, measured in astronomical ...

An astronomical unit, or one AU, is the distance from ... the distance of one of the newly-discovered objects in the outer solar system, along with its size in kilometers. Objects small and ...

"That now applies to the outer solar system planets ... system -- a region that spanned from the sun to about 7 astronomical units (AU), out to where Jupiter is today. (One AU is the distance ...

Astronomers have long been puzzled by the orbital mechanics of objects that act in strange and largely unexplained ways in the outer reaches of the solar ... and 800 astronomical units from ...

“That now applies to the outer solar system planets ... system — a region that spanned from the sun to about 7 astronomical units (AU), out to where Jupiter is today.