Distance
2007 OR10 came to perihelion around 1856. It is currently 86.5 AU from the Sun. This makes it the 3rd-farthest known large body in the Solar System, after Eris (97 AU) and Sedna (87 AU). It will be farther from the Sun than Sedna in 2013. 2007 OR10 will be farther than both Sedna and Eris by 2045, and it will reach aphelion (farthest distance from the Sun) in 2130.
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“As distance shows a horse’s strength, so time reveals a person’s heart.”
—Chinese proverb.
““I see nobody on the road,” said Alice.
“I only wish I had such eyes,” the King remarked in a fretful tone. “To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it’s as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
From this distance in time,
it seems the color
of iris, rotting and turning purpler,
but it was only
the usual gray rock”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)