A new dwarf planet has been found lurking in the Kuiper Belt — the large cloud of icy bodies that orbits at the fringes of the Solar System. The object, named 2015 RR245, was spotted by a team of international astronomers in February of this year, after looking over data from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. The discovery was made as part of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, an ongoing observation looking for objects beyond Neptune.
Found: new dwarf planet on an incredibly wide orbit around the Sun
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