FarFarOut is the most distant object in the Solar System

[Roger E. Moore]

FarFarOut: Astronomers Just Confirmed The Most Distant Known Object in The Solar System.

https://www.sciencealert.com/farfaro...e-solar-system

[grant hutchison]

Mercifully, not the official name.

Grant Hutchison

[antoniseb]

Of course we know several larger objects - 90377 Sedna for example - (and *many* comets) that go further out than this one does, but at the moment, this is the most distant that we can and have imaged.

[Trebuchet]

Isn't that where Mrs. Shrek is from?

[KaiYeves]

Mercifully, not the official name.

Grant Hutchison

But, like Xena before it became Eris, we can have some chuckles over it before another name is chosen.

[grant hutchison]

But, like Xena before it became Eris, we can have some chuckles over it before another name is chosen.

Well, the world's divided on the chuckleworthiness of the whole "Look, I gave it a funny name!" thing.
But I give you joy of it, if that's your thing.

Grant Hutchison

[Noclevername]

Far out, man.

[grant hutchison]

Far out, man.

Yes, that was Scott Shephard's joke when the team discovered 2018 VG₁₈, and how it ended up nicknamed "Farout".

Grant Hutchison

[ngc3314]

Funny thing I noticed a couple of years ago that still holds true - discoveries of TNOs are extending outward but not yet as fast as Voyager 1 (currently at 152 AU). The advantages of having a power source (while it lasts), transmitter, and sizable dish antenna... [Pulls pedant's license from wallet] So make that "most distant known natural object".

[publiusr]

Now, I thought there was something named “Gna” that was farther afield...