{"id":19247,"date":"2015-11-10T23:16:28","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T07:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/most-distant-solar-system-object-yet-could-hint-at-hidden-planet"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:25:01","slug":"most-distant-solar-system-object-yet-could-hint-at-hidden-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/most-distant-solar-system-object-yet-could-hint-at-hidden-planet","title":{"rendered":"Most distant solar system object yet could hint at hidden planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-distant-solar-system-object-yet-could-hint-at-hidden-planet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The inky black of the outer solar system just got a little brighter. A speck of light spotted in October 2015 is a rocky world more than 3 times more distant than Pluto \u2013 the farthest body in our solar system ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know anything about its orbit,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/home.dtm.ciw.edu\/users\/sheppard\/\">Scott Sheppard<\/a> of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, whose team discovered the new addition. \u201cWe just know it\u2019s the most distant object known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sheppard announced the new object, called V774104, on 10 November at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/aas.org\/meetings\/dps47\">Division for Planetary Sciences<\/a>, held in National Harbor, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28477-most-distant-solar-system-object-yet-could-hint-at-hidden-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inky black of the outer solar system just got a little brighter. A speck of light spotted in October 2015 is a rocky world more than 3 times more distant than Pluto \u2013 the farthest body in our solar system ever seen. \u201cWe don\u2019t know anything about its orbit,\u201d says Scott Sheppard of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63728,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19247\/revisions\/63728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}