http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/far-out-icy-world-widens-our-solar-systems-frontier-n62286
March 26, 2014 - NBC News
More than a decade after an oddball world named Sedna was discovered on the solar system's far frontier,
a fresh discovery reveals that it's not so odd after all. Sedna and the
newly found object, called 2012 VP113, may well be the first of a huge
new class of celestial bodies.
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Sheppard and Chad Trujillo, an astronomer at the Gemini Observatory in
Hawaii, describe their find in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. The discovery is based on a year's worth of observations from telescopes in Chile.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Discovery of new dwarf planet hints at other objects in solar system
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.
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.
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Dwarf planet discovered at solar system's edge
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/26/tech/innovation/dwarf-planet-solar-system/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
March 27, 2014 - CNN
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The dwarf planet's current name is 2012 VP113, and it is located in a "wasteland or badland of the solar system," said astronomer Chad Trujillo, head of adaptive optics at Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and co-discoverer of this object. His study was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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March 27, 2014 - CNN
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The dwarf planet's current name is 2012 VP113, and it is located in a "wasteland or badland of the solar system," said astronomer Chad Trujillo, head of adaptive optics at Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and co-discoverer of this object. His study was published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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