A Second Earth-like Planet may exist in the distant Kuiper-Belt scientists say

originally posted by: Phatal
If this is actually out there it only goes to show the absolute incompetence of every single space agency on our planet. Secondly, if it is earth like and in the kuiper belt, it should theoretically be barren and uninteresting.

Nibiru hype 3.0…. How convenient with the newest Ufo/Uap “disclosure” events

Nibiru and co are nothing more than conspiracy theories online motivated by older conspiracies before the era of the internet.

originally posted by: Phatal
If this is actually out there it only goes to show the absolute incompetence of every single space agency on our planet. Secondly, if it is earth like and in the kuiper belt, it should theoretically be barren and uninteresting.

Nibiru hype 3.0…. How convenient with the newest Ufo/Uap “disclosure” events

Did you understand now why it is so difficult to detect an earth-like planet in terms of size and mass that is located so far away from us (250-500 AU).

Seems this is a good site

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Japanese astronomers have proposed that an “Earth-like” planet exists much closer to home than the infamous Planet Nine. The research is published in The Astronomical Journal.

For years, the astronomy community has speculated about a ninth planet in our solar system, commonly referred to as Planet Nine.

Kuiper Belt planet

However, researchers from Japan now suggest that there might be another planet, closer than Planet Nine, hiding in the Kuiper Belt, a doughnut-shaped ring of objects just beyond Neptune’s orbit.

The study was conducted by Patryk Sofia Lykawka of Kindai University in Osaka, Japan, and Takashi Ito of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in Tokyo.

“We predict the existence of an Earth-like planet,” the researchers wrote. “It is plausible that a primordial planetary body could survive in the distant Kuiper Belt as a Kuiper Belt planet (KBP), as many such bodies existed in the early solar system.”

The scientists believe that this KBP is up to 500 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. This is 500 times the distance between Earth and the sun, and closer than Planet Nine.

More information on the proposed ninth planet this time from researchers in CalTech. It looks like they consider it highly probable and it could explain the motion of dwarf planets, planetoids, asteroids, that are located well beyond pluto.

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Dr. Mike Brown, who is a Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Astronomy at Caltech and lead author of the study, tells Universe Today, “We are continuing to try to systematically cover all of the regions of the sky where we predict Planet Nine to be. Using data from Pan-STARRS allowed us to cover the largest region to date.”

Pan-STARRS, which stands for Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, is a collaborative astronomical observation system located at Haleakala Observatory and operated by the University of Hawai’I Institute of Astronomy with telescope construction being funded by the U.S. Air Force. For the study, the researchers used data from Data Release 2 (DR2) with the goal of narrowing down the possible location of Planet Nine based on findings from past studies.

In the end, the team narrowed down possible locations of Planet Nine by eliminating approximately 78 percent of possible locations that were calculated from previous studies. Additionally, the researchers also provided new estimates for the approximate semimajor axis (measured in astronomical units (AU)) and Earth-mass size of Planet Nine at 500 and 6.6, respectively.

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Caltech researchers have found mathematical evidence suggesting there may be a "Planet X" deep in the solar system. This hypothetical Neptune-sized planet orbits our Sun in a highly elongated orbit far beyond Pluto. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed "Planet Nine," could have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbit about 20 times farther from the Sun on average than Neptune. It may take between 10,000 and 20,000 Earth years to make one full orbit around the Sun.

The announcement does not mean there is a new planet in our solar system. The existence of this distant world is only theoretical at this point and no direct observation of the object nicknamed "Planet 9" have been made. The mathematical prediction of a planet could explain the unique orbits of some smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy debris that extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune. Astronomers are now searching for the predicted planet.