New dwarf planet discovered
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Channel: Real Thing TV · 2016 · News & Politics
New dwarf planet discovered which could unlock secrets of elusive Planet Nine WE have a new neighbour in our solar system after scientists discovered a new dwarf planet near to Pluto. A small planet has been discovered some 8.5billion miles from the sun, far beyond the other dwarf planet in our solar system, Pluto. The newly discovered 2014 UZ224 is just 330 miles across and takes a staggering 1,100 years to orbit the sun. To put its small size into perspective; the largest moon of Pluto, which was considered a planet but was downgraded for not being able to clear a path in its orbit, is Charon, which spans 750 miles – 2014 UZ224 is not even half the size of Pluto’s largest moon. The new planet was discovered using an instrument known as the Dark Energy Camera (DEC) which was designed to track the universe’s expansion under the pull of dark energy. The universe is constantly expanding and experts believe that it could be down to the presence of dark energy, which essentially acts as a counter to gravity.
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