Ninth Planet May Exist in Solar System Beyond Pluto, Scientists Report

[g5000]

All right. Listen up. Let's get something straight. What they REALLY mean is that a TENTH planet may exist. Got it, dweebs?

SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO!


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet-solar-system-beyond-pluto.html?_r=0

 

[emilynghiem]

All right. Listen up. Let's get something straight. What they REALLY mean is that a TENTH planet may exist. Got it, dweebs?

SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO!


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet-solar-system-beyond-pluto.html?_r=0

That explains it. I knew Dot Com had to be coming from somewhere else.
Now I know where!

 

[ScienceRocks]

I hope it turns out to be around 5 earth masses so it can be a super earth instead of a smaller neptune.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Great article.

 

[aaronleland]

All right. Listen up. Let's get something straight. What they REALLY mean is that a TENTH planet may exist. Got it, dweebs?

SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO!


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet-solar-system-beyond-pluto.html?_r=0

Q&A: The ‘Pluto Killer’ who thinks he’s found the true ninth planet

Here's another interesting article on the subject. A Q&A with the same guy who not only demoted Pluto, but discovered Planet Nine.

 

[ScienceRocks]

What do you think the odds are of this being around 6-7 earth masses x 1.8 times our radius and being titan like in its nature???

 

[ScienceRocks]

The new object (labelled U) as seen by ALMA. Credit: R. Liseau, et al.

Another possibility (which seems more likely to the object’s discoverers) is that it is about 300 AU away and about 1.5 times the size of Earth, making it the first “super-Earth” found in our solar system. Observations of trans-Neptunian objects have led to some speculation that one or two super-Earth’s could lurk in the outer solar system, so it’s not out of the question. There’s reason to be cautious of this idea, however, because of its location. Alpha Centauri is about 42 degrees away from the ecliptic. Most large solar system lay within a few degrees of the ecliptic, and even Sedna’s orbit is only inclined about 12 degrees from it. The chances of a super-Earth with such a highly inclined orbit seems very unlikely.​

http://www.forbes.co...r-solar-system/


What are the chances that this is a image of this planet we're talking about?

 

[sealybobo]

All right. Listen up. Let's get something straight. What they REALLY mean is that a TENTH planet may exist. Got it, dweebs?

SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO!


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet-solar-system-beyond-pluto.html?_r=0

How did we miss this planet? Is it the farthest planet from us? Must be.

There is so much we still don't know

 

[ScienceRocks]

All right. Listen up. Let's get something straight. What they REALLY mean is that a TENTH planet may exist. Got it, dweebs?

SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO! SAVE PLUTO!


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/21/science/space/ninth-planet-solar-system-beyond-pluto.html?_r=0

How did we miss this planet? Is it the farthest planet from us? Must be.

There is so much we still don't know

Too far out with a semi axis of around 700 au's! there is in fact so much we don't know about our own solar system.

 

[SixFoot]

Considering scientists have no idea where our Oort Cloud ends and where the Centauris' begins, I remain optimistically skeptical on what exactly this discovery means.