Dwarf planet candidate appears which takes roughly 280 years to orbit our sun
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Astronomers using the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile discovered a potential new dwarf planet candidate named 2026 ED138, which orbits the sun at a distance 46 times farther than Earth and takes 281.1 years to complete one orbit. If confirmed as a dwarf planet, it would become only the sixth known dwarf planet in our solar system, and its unusual orbital plane tilted 25 degrees suggests it was gravitationally disturbed by Neptune at some point in its history.