[Red Badger]

Researchers suggest that "at least two" planets lie beyond Pluto

[cripplecreek]

Possible.Its a big place that is mostly dark.

[nothingnew]

Pong

FMCDH(BITS)

[Personal Responsibility]

But I thought this science was settled?

[rktman]

Well according to one of the “buy it here now” nets, that would be the sun and the moon.

[FrankR]

Hey...load the U-Haul, I’m outta here.

[bk1000]

“Their calculations are based on the unusual orbital behaviour of very distant space rocks called extreme trans-Neptunian objects, or ETNOs.”

If they are indeed trans-Neptunian, it would be discriminatory to deny them the same planetary status afforded to cis-gendered planets. The stated ‘unusual behavior’ would also be fitting. (deliberately refraining from “Uranus” joke here)

[Kenny Bunk]

Suggest at least one new planet be named after Rudolf Diesel.

[Liberty Valance]

[Alex Murphy]

Those would be Planet 10 and Planet X.

[Huskrrrr]

And they are for sale!! Please contact me at your earliest convenience for a great deal.

[smokingfrog]

0bama’s head is big enough to be a planet and so is Moochelle’s derriere, so there you go....

[Resolute Conservative]

What is their immigration policy?

[Marko413]

[MaggiesPitchfork]

Astrology is really gonna take a hit here - can’t wait how they explain these new mystical forces!

[RayChuang88]

I wonder are the scientists using the same analysis developed hundreds of years ago that allowed us to find Uranus and Neptune (which are generally not visible to the naked eye even on a very clear night out in rural areas) originally? Those methods were used to find Pluto in 1930 and in recent years find a number of trans-Neptunian objects. Don't be surprised if some of the world's biggest telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope are used in this search.

[Capt. Tom]

Princeton edu-
Vulcan was a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun. In an attempt to explain peculiarities of Mercury's orbit, in the 19th-century French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier hypothesized that they were the result of another planet, which he named Vulcan. No such planet was ever found, and Mercury's orbit has now been explained by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

[Flick Lives]

I thought, wow 500+ AUs away... that should be halfway to the next star... but it’s not.
500AU = .0079 light years. Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years away. Pluto is 29 AU from the Sun, and it took New Horizon 9 years to get to Pluto.

Even our own Solar System is big, darn big.

[Lazamataz]

Beyond Neptune, Pluto was relegated to the status of "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union in 2006,

Pluto: "Freakin planetists. Always oppressing the small planets. Me and Mercury are gonna shut down interplanetary routes until we get some respect. NO RECOGNITION, NO SPACEFLIGHT! NO RECOGNITION, NO SPACEFLIGHT! NO RECOGNITION, NO SPACEFLIGHT!"

[SMARTY]

And “O” lies BEYOND all of them!! :)

[camle]

whatever happened to Seles (or whatever it is called)? the planet after pluto