Ninth Planet May Exist in Solar System Beyond Pluto, New Evidence Suggests

The New York Times ^ | JAN. 20, 2016 | KENNETH CHANG

[presidio9]

ping

[Jewbacca]

I hope they name it “Nemesis.”

Or at least “Krypton.”

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Planet X fools! We’re all gonna die!

[Buckeye McFrog]

How much will Disney pay for the naming rights to THIS one??

[Delta 21]

You mean “10th planet”.

[GraceG]

Pictures or it doesn’t exist....

If it were big enough and rocky enough....

It may be big enough to generate enough internal heat to be habitable, as long as the atmosphere isn’t too thin or thick it could even have life!

But that is being really really hopeful!

[Delta 21]

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[presidio9]

An artist's impression of a possible ninth planet. It would be quite large — at least as big as Earth — with a thick atmosphere around a rocky core. Credit California Institute of Techonology

[cuban leaf]

Planet X fools! We’re all gonna die!

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They think that by renaming it Planet IX we will be fooled. HA!

[Slyfox]

[IronJack]

I hope they name it “Nemesis.” Or at least “Krypton.”

Considering the PC climate these days, it's more likely to be called "Trayvon" or "Obama."

[The KG9 Kid]

I would expect that there are plenty of Pluto-sized planetoids extending past the orbit of Pluto reaching all the way to the distant Oort Cloud that are technically part of our Solar System.

Probably quite a lot.

[faithhopecharity]

Wanna bet his real birth certificate is up there?

[foundedonpurpose]

Nibiru, Nibiru, where for art thou????

[NorthMountain]

[presidio9]

It may be big enough to generate enough internal heat to be habitable, as long as the atmosphere isn’t too thin or thick it could even have life!

Until proven otherwise, belief that life exists elsewhere in this solar system remains the only secularly accepted religion in Western culture (with the possible exception of Buddhism and perhaps Islam).

Every new discovery that we make in astrophysics increases the odds against the possibility of life (and certainly intelligent life) existing anywhere else in the universe.

[fatnotlazy]

Actually, some years ago, it was decided Pluto wasn’t a planet.

But I was taught that it is, and so I’m with you. Ten planets.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

We have to approach it at light speed to get past the deflector shields.

[PIF]

Muhammad ...