Celestial body is within three thousand times farther from the Sun than the Earth.
Astronomers Scott Sheppard, Chadwick Trujillo, and David Tholen has discovered the most distant known object in the Solar system. The study of this and other celestial bodies, published in the journal the Astronomical Journal.
Celestial body 2014 FE72 is three thousand times farther from the Sun than the Earth. His trajectory lies entirely outside the orbit of Neptune is the farthest planet from the Sun system. Probably 2014 FE72 is under the gravitational influence of heavenly bodies outside the Solar system.
“We are now in the same situation as in the mid-nineteenth century, when Alexis Bouvard studied the orbital motion of Uranus, which eventually led to the discovery of Neptune,” said Sheppard. The scientist said that the behavior of celestial bodies on the outskirts of the Solar system is likely to Planet X.
On the possible discovery beyond the orbit of Pluto Planet X scientists reported in mid-January 2016. A potential ninth planet of the system revolves around the Sun in an elongated orbit (and inclined relative to Earth’s orbit plane) with a period of 15 thousand years, and physico-chemical properties reminiscent of Neptune.
