Icy planetoid found lurking at edge of solar system
Newly discovered object is one of the most distant bodies orbiting the sun
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WANDERING WORLD The newly discovered planetoid, 2012 VP113, moves against a backdrop of stars in these pictures taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This photo combines three images taken a couple of hours apart. The individual images of 2012 VP113 are colored red, green and blue. It moved two-thousandths of a degree across the sky between the first and last image.
Scott S. Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science