How long would it take?

Put it this way it takes WAAAAY longer than one of our years.  The Earth makes one full orbit around our sun in a time frame we know as a year.  That is 3.154e+7 to be exact.  Now astronomers have found a planet that has the longest year that they have ever seen.  Here is a bit more about it:

The planetary-mass object J2126 – previously thought to be a free-floating planet – orbits its parent star in the most distant orbit seen yet, according to a group of scientists led by Dr Niall Deacon of the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

It orbits approximately 6,900 Astronomical Units from TYC 9486-927-1, an active, rapidly rotating early-M dwarf.

For non astronomy super fans that is a very very long time.  On a side note, if the astronomers at Caltech are right last week and found a planet in our solar system past Pluto, it would have an extremely long year as well.

Let’s find out how many of our years it takes for that planet on page 2

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