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Rubin Observatory may have found a sixth dwarf planet
Original: The Vera C. Rubin Observatory may have just discovered our solar system’s sixth dwarf planet
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory may have discovered the solar system's sixth dwarf planet, a distant icy body that would join Pluto, Eris, Makemake, Haumea and Ceres in that category. The finding points to the observatory's power to reveal previously unseen objects in the outer solar system. Details of the candidate object have not yet been fully published or confirmed by the astronomical community.
Why now: It would be the first major discovery of its kind by the newly operational Rubin Observatory, confirming its ability to transform solar system science.
Evidence
- The Vera C. Rubin Observatory may have just discovered our solar system’s sixth dwarf planet · Scientific American
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