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PIA08003: Newest Member of Our Solar System (Artist's Concept)
This artist's concept shows the planet catalogued as 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. The new planet is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto.
 Target Name:  Eris
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Spacecraft:  Palomar Observatory
 Instrument:  Samuel Oschin Telescope 
 Product Size:  3000 x 2250 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  California Institute of Technology 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA08003.tif (20.25 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA08003.jpg (195.7 kB)  

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This artist's concept shows the planet catalogued as 2003UB313 at the lonely outer fringes of our solar system. Our Sun can be seen in the distance. The new planet, which is yet to be formally named, is at least as big as Pluto and about three times farther away from the Sun than Pluto. It is very cold and dark. The planet was discovered by the Samuel Oschin Telescope at the Palomar Observatory near San Diego, Calif., on Jan. 8, 2005.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2005-08-03