Hunt For Planet X Uncovers Solar System Object Dubbed ‘The Goblin’

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By: Ashley Strickland, CNN
(CNN) — While searching for the mysterious Planet X that some astronomers believe lurks on the edge of our solar system, researchers instead found an extremely distant object they dubbed “the Goblin.” And this object provides compelling evidence for the existence of Planet X.
The object is on the small end of being a dwarf planet, with a 40,000-year orbit — meaning it takes that long to go around the sun. That&