Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet

Astroboffins analyzed old data and found a candidate dwarf planet

A trio of scientists have published a paper that explains how they found a dwarf planet in a database. As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201”, in 2014 scientists used Chile’s Blanco...