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Astronomers Discover a Giant New Dwarf Planet Candidate Hiding Beyond Pluto(sciencealert.com)
11 points by AliCollins 1 day ago | 8 comments
[–] gnabgib 1 day ago
From Rubin Observatory - the discoverers (34 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50266046
[–] vld_chk 1 day ago
So, this is a final resolution to the Planet X mystery? The one which Batygin predicts?
[–] kjs3 1 day ago
Planet X is supposed to be Neptune sized. This thing is less than 1000 miles across. 'Giant' for a Kupier belt object; not so much for planets.
[–] dysfunction 1 day ago
Doubt it, it's too small (even the upper end of the estimated size range has it smaller than Pluto). Batygin and Brown's predicted planet would have to be bigger than Earth.
[–] linksnapzz 1 day ago
A giant "dwarf" planet? So...just a regular-sized planet, then?
[–] alexwy 1 day ago
With their current use of terminology a regular-sized planet would be a small medium at large.
[–] jkkola 1 day ago
It's obviously Venti.
[–] JoeAltmaier 1 day ago
Now we can make movies about rogue planets menacing Earth, not just asteroids. Great.