Astronomers have described the discovery of a new dwarf planet in the Solar system.
Space researchers have stated that they have found a new dwarf planet at the edge of the Solar system.
The site is called L91. However, most scientists struck by the fact that year on this planet lasts a record 20 thousand years.
The reason for this is the extremely large distance of the object from the sun. Found out about the dwarf planet visited planetological EPSC conference, held in Pasadena, United States.
“The fact is the L91 and how this planet manages to move in an orbit that makes it to the researchers is very interesting. We are confident that this property could be a consequence of ejection due to gravitational relationship to the enormous distance from the Sun, and it about 2 thousand astronomical units. At the moment, he slowly but surely returns to the sun, as it affects the gravitational attraction. Thanks L91 orbit is highly unstable and is changing in a fantastic way,” said one of the participants of the conference.
Described planet was discovered by a group of astronomers under the leadership of NASA. They were tasked constantly to observe objects in the Kuiper belt. This region represents a real dump of building materials of the Solar system on the far outskirts.
