Published: December 17, 2018
Provisionally named 2018 VG18, it is 120 times further away from the sun than Earth is
A group of astronomers have identified the most distant object ever observed within our solar system.
Provisionally named 2018 VG18, but nicknamed Farout by its discoverers, the body is 120 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. One AU is equal to the average distance from the Earth to the sun, or just under 150m kilometres. The previous furthest known object was Eris, 96 AU from the sun.
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