Posted on 10/01/2019 6:44:19 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Some of the most distant rocks in our solar system act in a way that suggests there’s some massive object out there we haven’t been able to see. A planet? Maybe. But why not a small black hole?
That’s a scenario a pair of scientists describe in a new paper. Of course, they recognise that a planet is more likely than an ancient black hole unlike any we’ve directly observed. But they simply want astronomers to think creatively while hunting for whatever this hypothetical object, often called Planet Nine, might be.
“By simply focussing on the concept of a planet, you restrict the experimental search that you’re undertaking,” James Unwin, one of the study’s authors and an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, told Gizmodo. “Once you start thinking about more exotic objects, like primordial black holes, you think in different ways. We advocate that rather than just looking for it in visible light, maybe look for in gamma rays. Or cosmic rays.”
Past Neptune, the motion of rocky objects seems to be disturbed by something with a mass about five to 15 times that of Earth. Scientists have tentatively named this object Planet Nine and are hunting for it. But this isn’t not the only planet-mass gravitational anomaly in the galaxy. Scientists have detected short warps to incoming starlight, perhaps from planet-sized objects bending their gravity. Maybe they’re rogue planets – or maybe they’re tiny black holes.
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I hope it’s not going for a strike.
9 planets and the moon.
Or are there 8 now?
Send research money
Or, maybe not
I'd like to send the dems on a fact-finding trip to find out.
Planet 9 from Outer Space???
(I know, old joke)
Planet nine is Pluto. Always has been, always will be. Pound sand, astronomers.
LOL!!!! Beat me to it.
What if it IS a bowling ball?! This needs to be investigated!
I think the alien space ship in that movie is the only one in any movie I’ve ever seen that uses curtains to separate rooms. And the flashing barrier light with black electrical tape in an X pattern was a nice touch on top of the radio. :)
Just tell Schiff you heard it from a friend who heard it from friend who heard from a friend someone from Planet 9 is colluding with Trump. Problem solved.
There is SOOOOO much unknown objects in the Kuiper belt of all sizes, and generally very small. It is a combined effect that we observe via the behavior of known objects.
This article is merely click-bait, trying to associate with the perhaps billions of small objects as one massive one.
There are far more than 8 planets now.
By the IAU's definition, there are eight planets in the Solar System;
four terrestrial planetsMercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
and four giant planets,
-- two gas giants Jupiter and Saturn
-- and two ice giants Uranus and Neptune
and then the minor planets
Dwarf planets are bodies that are massive and warm enough to have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, but have not cleared their neighbourhoods of similar objects. Since 2008, there have been five dwarf planets recognized by the IAU
Ceres Pluto Haumea Makemake Eris Orcus 2002 MS4 Quaoar 2007 OR10 Sedna
I don’t believe it. Not for a minute.
Wow.
I had no idea.
What exactly happened to get Pluto kicked off the list?
I don’t recall.
You know your space stuff :)
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