<story><title> “Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/140901/just-discovered-farout-the-farthest-object-ever-seen-in-the-solar-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sctb</author><text>Previous discussion: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18700144&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18700144&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title> “Farout”, the Farthest Object Ever Seen in the Solar System</title><url>https://www.universetoday.com/140901/just-discovered-farout-the-farthest-object-ever-seen-in-the-solar-system/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>Looking at the Wikipedia page there are a number of trans neptunian objects with much greater aphelions:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2018_VG18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;2018_VG18&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is just the farthest out &lt;i&gt;right now&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extreme_trans-Neptunian_object&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Extreme_trans-Neptunian_object&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are likely many, many more we haven&amp;#x27;t found yet.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sednoid&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sednoid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For comparison it is often announced in the media that voyagers 1 and 2 have &amp;quot;left the solar system&amp;quot;. Voyager 1 is about 144AU out right now. There are things in orbit of the sun with aphelions from 1500 to 3000AU.</text></comment>