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New Dwarf Planet Candidate in Our Solar System

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also https://www.nsf.gov/news/new-dwarf-planet-candidate-discover...

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NIwXWwKOpw

Here is the orbit of it:

https://dahlend.github.io/ketev/#t=2026-10-28.9204&sel=2026%...

Ephemeris listing, if anyone knows how to get RA/Dec from it:

https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=2026%...

Go to https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/

Edit target body to "2026 ED138"

Click "Generate ephemeris"

About RA=18:11:01 DEC=-42d 14m 31s today

18 11 01.74 -42 14 31.4

Bigger than Ceres, btw. Who knows many of those drift in icy, cold darkness of Kuiper belt and beyond.

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