9 Strangest Things Floating Around In Our Solar System
9. Plutos Nemesis
There's been a lot of buzz about Pluto of late, which is pretty good going for a dwarf planet more than 4.6 billion miles away. What a lot of people don't know is that Pluto has a twin, also lurking out there in the kuiper belt. Orcus is another trans-neptunian object just like Pluto, it's orbital size, period (year length) and inclination are almost identical to Pluto's but opposite in almost every way, like a pair of siblings that are determined to be different from one another. When Pluto is at the perihelion (its closest point to the sun), contrary Orcus is at the aphelion (the furthest point) and vice versa and they both orbit the sun "at an angle" like this. They also both have weirdly large moons relative to their size with Charon measuring roughly half Pluto's size, and Vanth coming it at around a third of Orcus'. Orcus, in Etruscan mythology, was a god of the underworld, much like Pluto in Roman mythology. He also happened to be the punisher of broken oaths, so perhaps Orcus is coming for us for demoting Pluto from its planet status.
