Pink Dwarf Planet Called Biden Is Within The Solar System

Astronomers have discovered a new pink dwarf planet that has the most distant orbit in our solar system.

The discovery suggests there could be thousands of similar planets beyond the known edge of our solar system but within the influence of our sun.

The new dwarf planet, officially named 2012 VP113, is about 450 kilometers in diameter — a little bit less than the length of Lake Michigan. According to the science journal team that discovered it call it VP for short, or “Biden”, after US vice president Joe Biden.

It never comes closer to the sun than 12 billion kilometers or 80 astronomical units (AU) — that is, 80 times the distance between the sun and the Earth, according to a study published online Wednesday in the journal Nature.