An artist's conception of a distant Planet X. Photograph: Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard/Courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science
Posted on 07/26/2020 6:25:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
An artist's conception of a distant Planet X. Photograph: Illustration by Roberto Molar Candanosa and Scott Sheppard/Courtesy of Carnegie Institution for Science
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Planet X. The first Black Muslim planet?
:^) I knew I liked you. ;^D
Finding a genuine planet will be a lot harder than finding “something.”
Shouldn’t it be planet IX ?
I’m cool with Pluto being a planet. Just sayin’ that the Astro-Karens that judge these things probably won’t find a new planet that fits their stringent standards! :-)
Astro-Karen sounds like something Hollywood will use.
Instead of Plan 9 from Outer Space, we are going to get Planet 9 in Outer Space.
WHAT HAPPENED TO XENIA?
WHAT HAPPENED TO XENIA?
WHAT HAPPENED TO XENIA?
They didn’t mention the theory that the planet isn’t of our Solar System and it was captured from another solar system.
Flaming globes of Sigmund!
My guess is, any planetary bodies discovered beyond Pluto will be moving in retrograde (or at the very least, at a substantial angle to the ecliptic), which is diagnostic of capture. This is analogous to the many small moons of Jupiter, and for that matter, Neptune's moon Triton.
A diagram shows the five recently-discovered moons of Jupiter that scientists need to name. (Image: © Roberto Molar Candanosa/Carnegie Institution for Science)
Pluto will always be a planet to me.
I read where one guy proposed that Planet Nine is really a small black hole.
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