Scientists just found more evidence that Planet Nine exists in our Solar System

http://www.sciencealert.com ^ | 29 MAR 2016 | Bec Crew

[puppypusher]

Pretty good Red.Pretty good.

[ShadowAce]

I wonder if this new planet would be concealed on the back side of the sun where we are never able to see it.

Given that the article says P9's orbit is about 10-20,000 Earth years, we would be in a position to see it at some point during our year.

[Svartalfiar]

I don’t quite understand.. We can’t see this supposed massive planet, we can only guess based on seeing its gravitational effects on other stuff. Small stuff. Little bitty kbos, that we can see?

[Red Badger]

It’s 75 times as far away as Pluto...................

[camle]

zaccheriah stichen (chariots of fire kinda dude) already identified this decades ago. named it marduk. it’s where those ancient aliens came from doncha know

[puppypusher]

I guess we’ll see in another 15000 to 20000 years.That is,If we’ll still be around.

[camle]

journey to the far side of the sun - starring roy thinnes (from the invaders), and special effects from gerry anderson - stingray/thunderbirds/supercar, etc

[SparkyBass]

Planet X was found LONG ago....

[Red Badger]

He’s still kicking!.....................

[Jack Hammer]

Bullying poor, little Pluto.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

"Hey Planet Nine fans, a new eccentric KBO was discovered. And it is exactly where Planet Nine says it should be," Brown tweeted over the weekend.

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[SunkenCiv]

the top secret "deus ex machina" keyword!!!

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• Ninth Planet May Exist in Solar System Beyond Pluto, New Evidence Suggests [2016]
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• Young Jupiter wiped out solar system's early inner planets, study says [2015]
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• Asteroid Belt Loaded with Former Comets [2009]
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• Are Jupiters Hard to Come By? [2008]
• We're going on a planet hunt [2006]
• Death Spiral: Why Theorists Can't Make Solar Systems [2006]

[SunkenCiv]

;’) Glad someone said it, the suspense was killin’ me.

[SunkenCiv]

Speaking of kickin’, he kicked it in October of 2010.

http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/

What I’m wondering is, where’s GT’s “it was aliens” graphic? Everyone hungover again as usual on a Tuesday, that’s my theory. And pass some Aleve, no reason.

[V K Lee]

And what type of minds think alike? :-)) Plan 9. The solar system has been evolving in structure till it’s no longer being taught in schools without subsequent editions. Is this another liberal fantasy or are intelligent beings finding themselves smarter?

[Idaho_Cowboy]

This looks like a job for DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24 1/2 CENTURY!

Are you ready eager young space cadet?

[Verginius Rufus]

10 times more massive than Earth? That would make it 1/30th the mass of Jupiter, and less massive than Uranus or Neptune. Hard to see how an object with that mass so far out could have such a large gravitational effect on KBO’s.

[Red Badger]

It’s the only thing in the neighborhood?........................

[Svartalfiar]

From the story: A total of six KBOs were identified as 'lining up' strangely, and now a seventh KBO has been added to the list. As Loren Grush reports for The Verge, this seventh KBO appears to have been pushed into a strange orbit by some great force nearby, about 149 billion km from the Sun, which is where Planet Nine is expected to be located. That's 75 times more distant than Pluto.

Yes, I get that it's far away. But what I don't understand is how we can't see it, but we can see the tiny things close to it that are behaving oddly. How can we see all these little guys but not the big one near them?

[Verginius Rufus]

If it is 75 times further away than Pluto, it is hardly in the neighborhood of the known Kuiper Belt Objects. Pluto's average distance is 39.482 astronomical units from the sun; Eris' is 67.668 astronomical units out and at last report was the furthest out object in the solar system that has been actually seen.

When Percival Lowell was hunting for a planet beyond Neptune it was called Planet X. Planet Nine could be called Planet IX.