A Sedna-like body with a perihelion of 80 astronomical units

Chadwick A. Trujillo () and Scott S. Sheppard
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Chadwick A. Trujillo: Gemini Observatory, 670 North A‘ohoku Place
Scott S. Sheppard: Carnegie Institution for Science, 5241 Broad Branch Road NW, Washington DC 20015, USA

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7493, 471-474

Abstract: The discovery of the distant dwarf planet 2012 VP113, with its large perihelion like that of the dwarf planet Sedna, shows that Sedna is not isolated and may be part of the putative massive inner Oort cloud, which extends far beyond the observable Solar System.

Date: 2014
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