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Dwarf Planet Stretches Solar System's Edge

By Nature
March 27, 2014
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Oort cloud objects orbits — This orbit diagram shows the paths of Oort cloud objects 2012 VP113 (red) and Sedna (orange), which circle the Kuiper belt (blue) at the Solar System's edge.

Credit: Scott S. Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science

The Solar System just got a lot more far-flung.

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