Posted on 05/21/2018 2:30:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The solar system just got a bit stranger. As astronomers continue their ongoing quest to find the elusive Planet Nine, a team found a space rock that lends credence to the idea that a huge super-Earth planet really exists in the outer reaches of our solar system.
The newfound asteroid, called 2015 BP519, adds to a growing body of evidence about little worlds in the solar system being perturbed by something big. Astronomers detailed its discovery and description in a new paper, adding that its bizarre angle of its orbit gives more weight to the idea that a big planet is out there — somewhere — tugging on the asteroid's path around the sun.
"We also consider the long term orbital stability and evolutionary behavior within the context of the Planet Nine hypothesis, and find that 2015 BP519 adds to the circumstantial evidence for the existence of this proposed new member of the solar system," read the abstract of the paper, which is available now on preprint website Arxiv and has been submitted to The Astronomical Journal. [How Astronomers Could Actually See 'Planet Nine']
Following up on the discovery, Quanta Magazine recently published an articlesurveying several astrophysicists who specialize in studying small worlds, including the discoverers of 2015 BP519. While not everybody agreed that Planet Nine was responsible for the strange orbit, the overwhelming majority agreed the new discovery gives more credence to the idea. "The second you put Planet Nine in the simulations, not only can you form objects like this object, but you absolutely do," lead author Juliette Becker, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, told Quanta. (You can look at the object's orbit online here.)
The solar system just got a bit stranger....
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Planet Nine = Nibiru
Something we can't see, which doesn't seem to reflect any light, is a planet.
My mnemonic that was taught to me was
Man
Very
Early
Made
Jars
Stand
Up
Nearly
Perpendicular
We have way more than 9 planets now.
We have a new category... dwarf planets and Pluto is the lead planet.
“Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune. It was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered.”
Then there are:
Ceres
Makemake
Haumea
Eris
“The term dwarf planet was adopted in 2006 as part of a three-way categorization of bodies orbiting the Sun,[1] brought about by an increase in discoveries of objects farther away from the Sun than Neptune that rivaled Pluto in size, and finally precipitated by the discovery of an even more massive object, Eris.[2] The exclusion of dwarf planets from the roster of planets by the IAU has been both praised and criticized; it was said to be the “right decision” by astronomer Mike Brown,[3][4][5] who discovered Eris and other new dwarf planets, but has been rejected by Alan Stern,[6][7] who had coined the term dwarf planet in April 1991.[8]”
The one I learned is probably not politically correct:
Mary’s Violet Eyes Make John Stay Up Nights Permanently.
“Little worlds in the solar system being perturbed”
Those little worlds always got a chip on their shoulders.
Ed Wood made a movie called Planet Nine From Outer Space. Wait. That was PLAN Nine. Not Planet Nine.
“The one I learned is probably not politically correct:”
The one I learned is probably why I failed astronomy :
Sum
Ting
Wong
We
Tu
Lo
Ho
Lee
Fuk
Bang
Ding
Ow
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small small world...
From my high school days:
Miss
Vasquez
Eats
Many
Jelly
Sandwiches
Under
Nancy’s
Porch
Time to petition to have it named Planet Trump. It’s big!Its incredible! And it’s out there making our solar system great again.....after the libs screwed over Pluto!
It's YUGE! I'd like to see them name it Planet Covfefe myself.
What happened to the planet?
Blown up, sir.
Nibiru.
Little planets are still planets. Free Pluto!
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