Planet 9 may be closer and easier to find than thought—if it exists
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/planet-9-may-be-closer-and-easier-to-find-than-thought-if-it-exists
OverviewGhost planets in the far solar systemRefining the searchFinding Planet NineBrown and Batygin originally announced their prediction of Planet Nine in 2016, but the pair is h… Brown and Batygin originally announced their prediction of Planet Nine in 2016, but the pair is h…The Caltech team based their prediction of Planet Nine’s existence on how it apparently perturbs a group of Kuiper Belt Objects, or KBOs. These small, icy worlds beyond Neptune include a population of objects with extreme orbits that take them at least 150 times farther from the sun t… In 2016, Batygin and Brown scrutinized six of those objects, whose oblong, tilted orbital paths h…Soon after the announcement, though, astronomers began casting doubts on the Planet Nine hypothesis. Chief among their concerns was that the peculiar clustering of orbits might not be clustering at all. Instead, over the past five years, multiple teams using a variety of data sets ha…
Brown and Batygin originally announced their prediction of Planet Nine in 2016, but the pair is h…The Caltech team based their prediction of Planet Nine’s existence on how it apparently perturbs a group of Kuiper Belt Objects, or KBOs. These small, icy worlds beyond Neptune include a population of objects with extreme orbits that take them at least 150 times farther from the sun t…
In 2016, Batygin and Brown scrutinized six of those objects, whose oblong, tilted orbital paths h…Soon after the announcement, though, astronomers began casting doubts on the Planet Nine hypothesis. Chief among their concerns was that the peculiar clustering of orbits might not be clustering at all. Instead, over the past five years, multiple teams using a variety of data sets ha…
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