Extreme trans-Neptunian object

Among the extreme trans-Neptunian objects are the sednoids, four objects with an outstandingly high perihelion: Sedna, , Leleākūhonua, and . Sedna and are distant detached objects with perihelia greater than 70 AU. Their high perihelia keep them at a sufficient distance to avoid significant gravitational perturbations from Neptune. Previous explanations for the high perihelion of Sedna include a close encounter with an unknown planet on a distant orbit and a distant encounter with a random star or a member of the Sun's birth cluster that passed near the Solar System. == Most distant objects from the Sun ==

s with a perihelion beyond Neptune (30 AU). While regular TNOs are located in the bottom left of the plot, an ETNO has a semi-major axis greater than 150–250 AU. They can be grouped by their perihelia into three distinct populations: == Notable discoveries ==

Trujillo and Sheppard discoveries Extreme trans-Neptunian objects discovered by astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott S. Sheppard include: • , Longitude of perihelion aligned with Planet Nine, but well within the proposed orbit of Planet Nine, where computer modeling suggests it would be safe from gravitational kicks. • , appears to be anti-aligned with Planet Nine. Outer Solar System Origins Survey The Outer Solar System Origins Survey has discovered more extreme trans-Neptunian objects, including: • , which has a lower inclination than many of the objects, and which was discussed by Michele Bannister at a March 2016 lecture hosted by the SETI Institute and later at an October 2016 AAS conference. • , which has an orientation similar to but has a larger semi-major axis that may result in its orbit crossing Planet Nine's. • , which fits with the other anti-aligned objects. • , which is in neither the anti-aligned nor the aligned groups; instead, its orbit's orientation is at a right angle to that of the proposed Planet Nine. Its argument of perihelion is also outside the cluster of arguments of perihelion. Since early 2016, ten more extreme trans-Neptunian objects have been discovered with orbits that have a perihelion greater than 30 AU and a semi-major axis greater than 250 AU bringing the total to sixteen (see table below for a complete list). Most TNOs have perihelia significantly beyond Neptune, which orbits from the Sun. Generally, TNOs with perihelia smaller than experience strong encounters with Neptune. Most of the ETNOs are relatively small, but currently relatively bright because they are near their closest distance to the Sun in their elliptical orbits. These are also included in the orbital diagrams and tables below. TESS data search Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin applied a targeted shift-stacking search algorithm to analyze data from TESS sectors 18 and 19 looking for candidate outer Solar System objects. Their search recovered known ETNOs like Sedna and produced 17 new outer Solar System body candidates located at geocentric distances in the range 80–200 AU, that need follow-up observations with ground-based telescope resources for confirmation. Early results from a survey with WHT aimed at recovering these distant TNO candidates have failed to confirm two of them. == List ==

• (*) longitude of perihelion, ϖ, outside expected range; • are the objects included in the original study by Trujillo and Sheppard (2014). • has been added in the 2016 study by Brown and Batygin. • All other objects have been announced later. The most extreme case is that of , nicknamed Caju, which has both the highest inclination and the farthest nodal distance; these properties make it a probable outlier within this population. == Notes ==