http://www.latimes.com/science/la-sci-oort-cloud-planet-20140327,0,11548.story
March 26, 2014 - LA Times
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The new dwarf planet, dubbed 2012 VP113 and described in a study
published in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature, helps confirm the
existence of an "inner Oort cloud" in an interplanetary no man's land
that was once thought to be barren but could be teeming with rocky
objects.
"We had high hopes, and our
hopes were confirmed," said Scott Sheppard, an astronomer at the
Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, who co-wrote the paper
with Chadwick Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii.