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Posted on 06/02/2016 7:40:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There may be an alien planet lurking within Earth's own solar system.
If the hypothetical Planet Nine does indeed exist, the sun probably ripped the world away from another star long ago, a new study suggests.
"It is almost ironic that while astronomers often find exoplanets hundreds of light-years away in other solar systems, there's probably one hiding in our own backyard," study lead author Alexander Mustill, an astronomer at Lund University in Sweden, said in a statement. [The Evidence for Planet Nine in Pictures].
Earlier this year, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, both of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, announced the possible existence of Planet Nine, a world perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth that's thought to lie in the outer solar system, far beyond Pluto's orbit.
Nobody has seen Planet Nine; Batygin and Brown inferred its existence from the odd orbits of a half-dozen small bodies in the frigid zone beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt.
Some scientists around the world are looking for Planet Nine through a variety of telescopes, while others are trying to figure out where it came from (if the planet does indeed exist).
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
It’s visits to our solar system is documented in many ancient historical records.
Just another indication that the more we think we know, the less we really know.
[ I mean, in between stars
I bet there are trillions ]
Oh definitely...
And I will bet that some are “super earth” sized that generate enough internal heat to keep their think atmospheres warn and non-frozen which means there could be life between stars than around stars...
Based on all the critters they find in our hydro-thermal vents and whatnot, there is no set rule that a star is needed for heat for life to develop. Earth may be on the small size scale for life and is only helped by the sun giving life a boost compared to super earth that is rogue and big enough to generate enough internal heat.
Maybe there is a reasons aliens supposedly lurk around in the night and have those big giant eyes ( to see things with only starlight). Because they didn’t come from THE STARS,.... they come from BETWEEN THE STARS!!!
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