Friday, July 29, 2005

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Distant object found orbiting Sun

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Distant object found orbiting Sun: "Distant object found orbiting Sun
By Dr David Whitehouse
Science editor, BBC News website

Image of the object
The new object was discovered in the outer reaches of the Solar System
Astronomers have found a large object in the Solar System's outer reaches. It is being hailed as 'a great discovery'.

Details of the object are still sketchy. It never comes closer to the Sun than Neptune and spends most of its time much further out than Pluto."

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