Planet 9 Search Turning Up Wealth Of New Objects

universetoday.com ^ | 08/30/2016 | Matt Williams

[BenLurkin]

In a paper that was recently accepted by The Astronomical Journal, Sheppard and Trujillo present their latest discoveries, which they claim are further constraining the location of Planet 9.

...Sheppard and Trujillo relied on information obtained by the Dark Energy Camera on the Victor Blanco 4-meter telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime-Camera on the 8-meter Subaru Telescope in Hawaii.

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Their most recent discovery was a small collection of more extreme objects who’s peculiar orbits differ from the extreme and inner Oort cloud objects, in terms of both their eccentricities and semi-major axes. As with discoveries made using other instruments, these appear to indicate the presence of something massive effecting their orbits.

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They include 2014 SR349, an extreme TNO that has similar orbital characteristics as the previously-discovered extreme bodies that led Sheppard and Trujillo to infer the existence of a massive object in the region.

Another is 2014 FE72, an object who’s orbit is so extreme that it reaches about 3000 AUs from the Sun in a massively-elongated ellipse – something which can only be explained by the influence of a strong gravitational force beyond our Solar System.

And then there’s 2013 FT28, which is similar but also different from the other extreme objects. For instance, 2013 FT28 shows similar clustering in terms of its semi-major axis, eccentricity, inclination, and argument of perihelion angle, but is different when it comes to its longitude of perihelion. This would seem to indicates that this particular clustering trend is less strong among the extreme TNOs.

[longfellow]

Great movie.

[left that other site]

Beat me to it!

[JoeFromSidney]

I remember seeing that movie when it came out. Boy, was I disappointed.

[Bellflower]

Yes, there are planets out there that though now not possessing any life at all, will. After the universe is made new there will be people on earth who procreate. The earth someday would become overpopulated except that The LORD has a plan. He knows how to get people to other planets. All and any life that happens on those planets will come from seed from this planet. This planet is the springboard that the universe will become populated from. If you aren’t saved you won’t get to experience all of this. You will be experiencing the lake of fire forever while we get to explore and know the universe.

[SunkenCiv]

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