Friday, October 30, 2026

ED138: Newly Discovered Dwarf Planet

ED138's orbit relative to the other dwarf planets in our Solar System. Credit:
 NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor. Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab). Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

ED138's orbit relative to the other Solar System dwarf planets (Image source). A year on ED138 lasts approximately 282 Earth years. 

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