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National Geographic
New Planet Found in Our Solar System?
Odd orbits of remote objects hint at unseen world, new calculations suggest.
An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of the solar system, according to new research.
Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes, the potential unseen planet appears to be making its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.
Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies—including some dwarf planets—that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Once considered the ninth planet in our system, the dwarf planet Pluto, for example, is one of the largest Kuiper belt objects, at about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) wide. Dozens of the other objects are hundreds of miles across, and more are being discovered every year.
(See "Three New 'Plutos'? Possible Dwarf Planets Found.")
What's intriguing, Gomes said, is that, according to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper belt objects—including the remote body known as Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they should be, based on existing solar system models. (Related: "Pluto Neighbor Gets Downsized.")
The objects' unexpected orbits have a few possible explanations, said Gomes, who presented his findings Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Oregon.
"But I think the easiest one is a planetary-mass solar companion"—a planet that orbits very far out from the sun but that's massive enough to be having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt objects.
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It Is Official : WISE Telescope Confirms Nibiru A Rogue Planet Outside Of Neptune And Uranus!!
Originally posted by Insomniac
Originally posted by XeroOne
I may as well make a porn movie while I'm at it. I'm sure I could fit Nibiru into the plot somewhere...
You could call it "Nibiru Raiders of Uranus".
Originally posted by jordanAKbramsen
Shoutout to Donny Gilson, for showing some of us the hidden truth
Originally posted by BrokenCircles
You should probably stop looking at the sun. It's not good for your eyes.
Originally posted by 2012zeropointeventhorizon
reply to post by steve1709
Dont you want to believe? Isnt what we have been told about history borring dont you wish there was somting more to it someting super exiting. Nibiru is real. The 2012 hype
Is just cover for the military and governments to prepare for nibirus and et arrival. Ets will arrive this augs or even before during olympics.
And it's impossible for there to be a gas giant 4 times the size of jupiter and we not see it.
It's PHYSICALLY impossible.
Originally posted by Skywatcher2011
reply to post by jordanAKbramsen
CNN has FAILED in their news report...what I mean is they said Pluto is a PLANET...so why believe anything after they say that? They have their "facts" mixed up...
Originally posted by buster2010
reply to post by tothetenthpower
And it's impossible for there to be a gas giant 4 times the size of jupiter and we not see it.
It's PHYSICALLY impossible.
Actually this isn't true. If this planet were to exist and act like a trojan asteroid then it would be next to impossible see and could only be spotted in the infrared spectrum. This is just one of the things that the WISE satellite is looking for. And as little as we know when it comes to the universe you should know nothing is impossible.