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Scientists have debated the existence of Planet Nine since it was first introduced several years ago, but a new study has determined the orbit of the alleged celestial object. Caltech researchers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin have plotted the orbital path of the mystical planet, which has yet to be discovered. In a blog post, Brown detailed that the 'highest probability' of Planet Nine's location is near aphelion - the point at which it is furthest from the sun - around 60 degrees in Right Ascension, 'pretty close to the galactic plane.' If in fact Planet Nine were at the...

Heavenly bodies stir up routine catastrophes March 18 2003 at 01:30PM By Graeme Addison Legend has it that when two people get together and er... bond, the Earth will move – at least in a metaphorical sense. Likewise, it takes two heavenly bodies, an impactor and a target, to come together with Earth-shattering force to form a crater. There’s nothing dreamlike about this: it happens, frequently, throughout the solar system. Impact catastrophes are routine. Just over two-billion years ago, a chunk of asteroid at least the size of Table Mountain struck the landmass that is now South Africa. It hurtled...

A new paper describes how the researchers connected the moving dots to find the new TNOs, and also says this new approach could help look for the hypothetical Planet Nine and other undiscovered worlds. The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is designed to probe the origin of the accelerating universe and help uncover the nature of dark energy by measuring the 14-billion-year history of cosmic expansion with high precision. It studies galaxies and supernovas and precisely tracks their movements. This survey has been active since 2013, using the 4-meter Blanco Telescope located at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. The...

Majdi Abu Khamis, a Hamas terrorist active in the Jenin area, was charged this morning in a Shomron military court with planning to assassinate Knesset Member and former Foreign Minister David Levy (Likud). The terrorist apparently used the cover of construction laborers in MK Levy's hometown of Beit She'an to reconnoiter the MK's habits and home. MK Levy told IDF Radio this morning, "The man who was captured and confessed had all of the details on my whereabouts, on my house; and he had even apparently suggested to other elements how best to carry out the plot." Among other terrorist...

David Levy quits coalition government Xinhuanet 2002-07-29 02:38:48 JERUSALEM, July 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Minister without Portfolios David Levy Sunday resigned from his post in protest overproposed budget cuts, putting the coalition government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into crisis. In a strongly-worded letter to the prime minister, Levy, chairman of the Gesher party and former foreign minister, said he had quit the coalition government because the proposed budget cuts would reduce the lower strata of the Israeli society to "abject poverty." He told Sharon that "the proposal put forward in recent days, which has earned your support, shows...