Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin: The Planet 9 Guys
Posted on 10/13/2017 8:00:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Planet Nine is out there, and astronomers are determined to find it, according to a new statement from NASA.
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While the mysterious world still has yet to be found, astronomers have discovered a number of strange features of our solar system that are best explained by the presence of a ninth planet, according to the NASA statement.
In 2016, Batygin and co-author Mike Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, published a study that examined the elliptical orbits of six known objects in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy bodies stretching from Neptune outward toward interstellar space. Their findings revealed that all of those Kuiper Belt objects have elliptical orbits that point in the same direction and are tilted about 30 degrees "downward" compared to the plane in which the eight official planets circle the sun, according to the statement.
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"Over long periods of time, Planet Nine will make the entire solar-system plane precess, or wobble, just like a top on a table," Batygin said in the statement.
Finally, the researchers demonstrate how Planet Nine's presence could explain why Kuiper Belt objects orbit in the opposite direction from everything else in the solar system.
"...These things have been twisted out of the solar system plane with help from Planet Nine and then scattered inward by Neptune."
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All that AND Pluto also has moons that orbit around it, I’m told.
Phaeton, just like the car. Funny name for a car since it supposedly exploded.
And with that, here’s the greatest love song ever written about Pluto and Charon and Plutos downgrade.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e3cDdGKqp8E
And i say that with some confidence because it’s not the kind of thing most people write love songs about and am pretty sure it’s the only one.
Cheers
Southpark
SWEET! :-)
They will eat our livers with fava beans and a nice Chianti....
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