>The object, for now, designated 2023 KQ14 and nicknamed “Ammonite,” was found by astronomers in Japan using its Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. Announced in a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, the object is not a planet but a sednoid. It's only the fourth sednoid ever discovered.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2025/07/15/meet-ammonite---a-new-world-just-found-in-the-solar-system/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02595-7

how is this different from a regular planet or rock like pluto

>>16726320
Smaller than Pluto
Way out there
Its existence calls into the question the orbital mechanics mumbo-jumbo that Mike (((Brown))) was using to shill his "large planet 9" scam. Same guy who rigged the IAU vote to demote Pluto btw.

The closest distance that 2023 KQ14 ever comes to our star is equivalent to 71 times the distance between Earth and the sun. The sednoid is estimated to be between 136 and 236 miles (220 and 380 kilometers) wide. That makes it 45 times wider than the height of Mount Everest.

new dwarf planet yay

>WE CANT LET IT BE A PLANET CHANGE THE RULES SO ITS NOT A PLANET THERE CANT BE MORE THAN 8 PLANETS STOP CALLING IT A PLANET JUST STOP I AM OBSESSED WITH THERE BEING ONLY 8 FOR VERY IMPORTANT REASONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>16726376
>Only I may discover the Ninth Planet
t. Mike Brown

it's a planet
and there's likely several more of them out there

>>16726430
>and there's likely several more of them out there
at least several more

>>16726430
>>16726436
NOOOOOOOOOOOO THEN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS WILL BE WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

so, when the Ammonite enters the house of Aries, the sheep will become stronger?

In this household Pluto is a fucking planet, end of story.

>>16726376
Its smaller than the other dwarf planets, its a very small dwarf planet. This does indicate there is a possibility of it having some friends possibly big enough to count as a planet tho.

>>16726338
>Minmus
Someone get the artist fired for plagiarism.

>>16729210

>>16729205
if something is big enough to form a sphere and is in orbit of the sun (and isn't orbiting something bigger that's orbiting a sun), it's a planet.