Program: GN-2019A-DD-105
Title: | Urgent Recovery of the Most Distant Objects in Our Solar System |
PI: | Scott Sheppard |
Co-I(s): | Chad Trujillo, Dave Tholen |
Abstract
For the last few years we have been performing the largest and deepest survey ever obtained to discover distant objects in our Solar System. Using the Subaru telescope, we recently discovered what appear to be the two most distant objects ever observed in our Solar System. One seems to be near 200 AU while the other is near 135 AU. In addition, we found another object near 100 AU. The only currently known solar system object beyond 100 AU was an object found by our survey last year, called 2018 VG18, which is at 120 AU, and nicknamed Farout. Normally we would recover our new discoveries with the Magellan telescope, but because of weather and discovery circumstances, we do not have any upcoming large telescope time to recover these new very distant and likely very interesting discoveries. We request DDT on Gemini as soon as possible to recover the very distant and very faint objects we recently discovered using Subaru.