Planet Nine: First Real Clue After Decades of Searching [9:37]

YouTube ^ | May 2, 2025 | NASASpaceNews

[SunkenCiv]

Is Planet Nine real? A new study may have just found the strongest clue yet. By analyzing decades-old infrared data from IRAS and AKARI satellites, scientists have spotted a slow-moving object in the outer Solar System—exactly where Planet Nine is predicted to be. If confirmed, it would be the first new planet discovered in over 170 years. Dive into the science, the discovery, and what it means for our cosmic future in this exciting episode. 

Planet Nine: First Real Clue After Decades of Searching | 9:37 
NASASpaceNews | 511K subscribers | 3,717 views | May 2, 2025 

Chapters: 
00:00 Introduction 
00:48 The Case for Planet Nine – Why Astronomers Are Still Looking 
02:37 A New Clue Emerges – How IRAS and AKARI Data Revived the Hunt 
04:54 From Theory to Reality – The Long Journey to a New World 
08:30 Outro 
08:39 Enjoy 

[ZOOKER]

I wonder about a Planet Nine having a close encounter with Earth at some point, or at several points.

The same thought occurred to me --- if there is a planet, its orbit is important.

There are comets out there with elongated, eccentric orbits that take them far outside the solar system, such that it takes decades or even centuries to complete a single orbit. It's only when they approach the sun that they become visible. One of them collided with Jupiter last year, as I recall.

What if there's a planet out there whose orbit crosses ours? Could be trouble.

[Az Joe]

Wow, and 800 AU at its most distant. Quite far.

Voyager 1 is currently approximately 167 AU from the Sun.

[baclava]

Planet Nibiru! home of our alien creator gods the Anuunaki.

Last time they visited the Mesopotamians many thousands of years ago they created us, their slave race, to mine gold.

The sky gods will return, yea verily!

[SunkenCiv]

It’s a strange feeling knowing that Captain Kirk will eventually have to save the Earth from it, but he won’t be born for a couple hundred years yet.

[Az Joe]

About 2260 I believe?

[IYAS9YAS]

Back in my day, we had nine planets. So this would be planet ten (or X, as it were).

[SunkenCiv]

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4314764/posts?page=6#6

[BradyLS]

I liked Whitley Strieber when he occasionally subbed for Art Bell.

[BradyLS]

Can we call it “Ix”?

Frank Herbert did!

[Redcitizen]

“Can we call it “Ix”?”

Ford’s classmates nicknamed him Ix, which loosely translates to “boy who is not able to satisfactorily explain what a Hrung is, nor why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.”

(Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. )

[BradyLS]

…But, as I have since learned, he was not alluding to Pluto. But the ninth planet in the Eridani system.

[Nateman]

The Webb telescope would be a great way to confirm this since its specialty is observations in Infared

[no-to-illegals]

Are we living on the third electron of a fluoride atom ?

[Jemian]

👍🏻👍🏻

[Psalm 73]

"Planet Nibiru! home of our alien creator gods the Anuunaki."

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Neptune’s discovery was attributed to study of perturbations of the orbit of Uranus. (No snickering, now, boys.) Le Verrier in France and John Couch Adams in England had been been independently working to find the unknown planet’s orbit. In a somewhat desultory effort, astronomers at the Cambridge Observatory had observed and recorded the position of Uranus months before it was observed at Berlin, in response to Le Verrier’s published orbit, within a degree of the prediction.

Adams, and the Cambridge Observatory get no credit, except for precovery observations, because they did not follow up, and confirm that the observations were a planet. It was just one of a number of faint uncatalogued stars, which were too numerous to study. Galle and d’Arrest had access to as yet unpublished charts of area of the sky in which Neptune happened to be, and recognized it immediately upon observation.

BTW, I own this book and paid $140 bucks for it:

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[camle]

they should name it katy perry. she’s out there too, and also rather dim

[Qwapisking]

just got up so before coffee thought the headline read something about plan 9 from outer space.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks LiM, was hoping you’d see this one.