The orbit of 2017 OF201 is a tale of gravitational dynamics. Its perihelion at 44.9 AU puts it close to Pluto’s territory, but its aphelion pushes it out into the zone where the Sun’s force ...

For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.

In other words, 2017 OF201 likely would not be able to remain if Planet Nine does exist. But Yang said more research is needed, and the discovery of the new dwarf planet candidate is not ...

That makes 2017 OF201 almost 30 times farther out than Neptune at its most distant point. This kind of orbit earns the object a spot in the category of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs).

2017 OF201 is about one-third the size of Pluto, which was reclassified as a dwarf planet in August 2006, and "is likely large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet, and its orbit is extremely wide ...

Earth's orbital distance from the sun is called an astronomical unit. 2017 OF201 is currently located at a distance of 90.5 astronomical units from the sun, meaning 90.5 times as far as Earth.

2017 OF201’s elongated orbit makes it an outlier from the clustered objects, but Yang’s calculations suggest that the orbit of 2017 OF201 should remain stable over roughly the next billion years.

Named 2017 OF201, its diameter is about 435 miles (700 km) The object takes roughly 25,000 years to orbit the sun; It is among the solar system's furthest visible objects ...

The minor world is dubbed 2017 OF201; the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center added the object to its catalog on May 21. Despite its classification, the planet measures ...

The mass of 2017 OF201 is estimated to be about 20,000 times smaller than Earth’s and 50 times smaller than Pluto’s. “We don’t know the shape yet.