Beyond the Kuiper Belt Edge
Two new Kuiper Belt objects, 2014 FZ71 and 2015 FJ345, are among the most distant bodies in the Solar System. They are always further than 50AU from the Sun, and only Sedna and 2012 VP113 have larger perihelia. The discovery was made using data from DECam on the Blanco 4-m telescope at CTIO.
Credit:Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute (JHUAPL/SwRI) & S. Sheppard, et. al.
About the Image
| Id: | noaoann16012a |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | July 7, 2016 |
| Related announcements: | noaoann16012 |
| Size: | 1714 x 1000 px |
About the Object
| Category: | Solar System |
