Orcus of the Outer Solar System . ... Credit Copyright: M. Brown ( Caltech ), C. Trujillo ( Gemini ), D. Rabinowitz ( Yale ), Samuel Oschin Telescope Explanation: A newly discovered object in the outer Solar System moves like an anti-Pluto. ... Orcus and Pluto have similar orbits: each achieves nearly the same maximum and minimum distances from the Sun, each orbits on a similarly shaped ellipse, and each orbital ellipse is tilted toward the other planets' orbital ellipse by roughly the same angle. ...