in before the plan 9 from outer space reference
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The ninth planet is Pluto.
(Old school here)
Sounds like a game of pool. The planets are the pool balls and the sun the que.
The launch date for the James Web space telescope is still on for Oct 21, 2021.
Bout time
It will be positioned 1 million miles away from earth at L2, Lagrange point #2, in a stable orbit.
Its infrared camera should give us more detail at the outer edges of our solar system, if it all works, pretty exciting stuff.
Astronomers: There’s no such thing as Planet Ten! It would have been found a long, long time ago!
Eris: *exists and is larger than Pluto*
Astronomers: That’s it! You can’t have Planet Nine, either!
That would be planet X, or 10, not 9. We already have 9 planets.
I am imaging a SciFi story based on such a planet and what a history of sentient life on it may be, with a 15,000 year cycle of likely slowly changing but definite climate change going on, as the plant moves at times closer to its suns and later moves away from them. It could entail long 15,000 year cycles of the uprooting and building of civilizations. Just some wild Friday morning day dreaming.