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Planet 9
Scientists Are Now Close to Finding a Mysterious Planet
That Explains Strange Cosmic Phenomena, Study Reports "Scientists have now excluded 78 percent of the search space for the hypothetical Planet Nine, significantly narrowing down the possible location of the planet that could explain some of the strange phenomena of our solar system—if it even exists. The Planet Nine hypothesis proposes that there’s an undiscovered planet lurking at the far reaches of our solar system, and that this could explain the strange orbits of around half a dozen objects at its outer edges. These Extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) mostly tend to cluster together as they get closer to the sun and their orbits are all oddly tilted. The gravitational pull of another, massive planet could explain these observations. No one’s actually seen this mysterious ninth planet, but a preprint published on arXiv has significantly narrowed the search field and explains that Planet Nine existing is still the researchers' preferred hypothesis." See: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak38...nding-planet-9 |
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