Summary

Scientists are on the verge of confirming the discovery of another member of the solar system, a potential dwarf planet. Astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile located the object, provisionally named 2026 ED138. The prospective planet measures somewhere between 600 and 1,500 kilometers in diameter and is located about 46 astronomical units from the sun (an astronomical unit being Earth’s approximate distance from the sun).

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