Posted on 10/19/2016 8:18:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
In January, astronomers revealed evidence for the potential existence of another planet in the solar system. Researchers suggest that if this world — dubbed Planet Nine — exists, it could be about 10 times Earth's mass and orbit the sun at a distance about 500 times the distance from the Earth to the sun.
Previous research suggested that Planet Nine would possess a highly tilted orbit compared with the relatively thin, flat zone in which the eight official planets circle the sun. This led scientists to investigate whether Planet Nine's slant might help explain other tilting seen elsewhere in the solar system.
"Planet Nine may have tilted the other planets over the lifetime of the solar system," said study lead author Elizabeth Bailey, an astrophysicist and planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Prior work found that the zone in which the eight major planets orbit the sun is tilted by about 6 degrees compared to the sun's equator. This discrepancy has long been a mystery in astronomy.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
They found planet nine decades ago, and they insisted up and down that there was no way there could possibly be a planet ten. Then they found planet ten. And planet eleven. And kept the results secret until they could say that planet nine shouldn’t be called a planet, so that they wouldn’t have to call planet ten or planet eleven planets either.
Look if it identifies as a Planet so be it
Yeah, right, because it could be a cisplanet or panplanet and we have to be inclusive.../s
The tilt was caused when I leaned too hard on the pinball machine.
That’s all wrong. It’s lectroids from Planet 10
....The tilt was caused when I leaned too hard on the pinball machine.....
Is this the reason the Democrat Congressman thought Guam would tilt and turn over?
That’s what happens when you’re an unbalanced democrat congresman. Having your head up your a** leads to balance problems.
Planet nine would make a great yoko Ono song
Didn’t Pluto get its planet status restored? So shouldn’t this be Planet Ten?
(Ironically, 10 in Roman numerals is X. so that would make this the famous Planet X.)
So maybe Pluto was upgraded from "dwarf planet" to "unofficial planet."
Planet? I swear it was an accident!
bkmk
No. Look at the diagram in this video. Planet X is the green orbit labeled FE72.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og1MBx78NKs
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