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This adorable dwarf planet is half the size of Pluto

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If you thought Pluto wasn’t a planet, you should meet DeeDee.
The solar system doesn’t end at Pluto.
Out past the Kuiper belt, there are other objects orbiting our sun, including V774104 , the farthest object identified in the solar system. In October 2016, a team of astronomers at the University of Michigan and the Dark Energy Survey announced the discovery of DeeDee , the third-most-distant object from the sun.
DeeDee, also known by its official designation 2014 UZ224 (DeeDee is short for « Distant Dwarf ») is some 91.4AU away: That’s 91.4 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

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