New dwarf planet 'The Goblin' found; has a 40,000-year orbit

American astronomers have discovered a new extremely distant object, spotted 2.5 times farther beyond Pluto from the Sun in 2015. Nicknamed 'The Goblin', the dwarf planet has a 40,000-year orbit with the closest distance to Sun at 65 astronomical units (AU) and farthest at 2,300 AU. The discovery was made during the ongoing search for dwarf planets and Planet X.