2015 FO563
// Trans-Neptunian object
// Data-inspired illustration— not a photograph
Uncommon11%
- ◆ Type
- Trans-Neptunian object
- ◆ Orbital period
- 347.7 yearsmeasured ±
- ◆ Orbits
- Sun
- ◆ Closest to the Sun
- 44.51 AUmeasured
// Time capsule
Sunlight takes about 6.9 hours to reach it — the reflected light in this view is that old.
◆ Discovery points20,242
Top 39% for a Solar System body10
- +3,404RareTrans-Neptunian Objectorbits beyond Neptune
- +3,404RareFrozen ArchiveOut past Neptune lie tens of thousands of icy worlds — a frozen archive of the early Solar System, barely changed in 4.5 billion years.
- +3,404RareSun as a StarSunlight out here is hundreds to thousands of times fainter than on Earth — the Sun would look like a very bright star.
- +3,081RareOuter Reachesorbits beyond Neptune, out in the Kuiper belt and past it
- +3,018RareCentury Orbittakes more than 100 years to go once around the Sun
- +1,094RareMinor Bodyan asteroid, trojan, centaur or trans-Neptunian object — not a planet, moon or comet
- +909Uncommon0.2% of the RestEverything in the Solar System put together, apart from the Sun, adds up to less than 0.2% of its mass. The Sun is almost the whole story.
- +909UncommonIt WandersUnlike the stars, this object doesn't sit still on the sky — night to night it drifts against the background, which is exactly how the ancients spotted the planets.
- +909UncommonOne Family, One CloudEverything here — Sun, planets, moons, this body — condensed from a single spinning cloud of gas and dust about 4.6 billion years ago.
- +110CommonCatalogue Designationknown only by a survey or catalogue label, never given a name