QuoteCaltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). In fact, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the sun.
The researchers, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, discovered the planet's existence through mathematical modeling and computer simulations but have not yet observed the object directly.
Researchers find evidence of a real ninth planet (http://phys.org/news/2016-01-evidence-real-ninth-planet.html)
The strongest evidence they found was the way objects in the Kuiper belt behave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbTtOzhvxI
Has anyone heard if they've given this planet a name yet?
Quote from: Irene on October 20, 2016, 06:06:15 PM
Has anyone heard if they've given this planet a name yet?
Nibiru! ;D ;)
ETA: The researchers are just calling it "Planet 9" which is so unimaginative! My suggestion is sure to be more popular. :)
Getting crowded out there :P
But yeah they should call it Nibiru :P
That would cause a stir :P
(http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/800px-eighttnos.png)
Quote from: Pimander on October 20, 2016, 06:33:13 PM
Nibiru! ;D ;)
ETA: The researchers are just calling it "Planet 9" which is so unimaginative! My suggestion is sure to be more popular. :)
It is Planet TEN, Pluto will always be a planet to me :D
Damn you Neil deGrasse Tyson :P
Quote from: RUSSO on October 20, 2016, 09:51:29 PM
It is Planet TEN, Pluto will always be a planet to me :D
Damn you Neil deGrasse Tyson :P
I agree. Pluto is still a planet in my book.