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Just last year, the pair made headlines with not one but two major discoveries—the dwarf planet 2015 TG387, nicknamed the Goblin, and 2018 VG18, nicknamed FarOut.

The current record holder – a dwarf planet at 120 times the Earth-sun distance – was named merely FarOut when it was spotted by the same team in December last year.

The object, if confirmed, would break his team’s own discovery, announced in December, of a dwarf planet 120 times farther out than Earth, which they nicknamed “Farout.”

Like Farout, FarFarOut’s orbit is not yet known; until it is, it’s uncertain whether it will stay far enough away from the rest of the solar system to be free of the giant planets’ gravitational tug.

It will take several years to determine the orbits of Farout and FarFarOut, and whether they will provide more clues.