strange but true
September 4, 2023 | 6:24 PM
Another world may be lurking between the orbits of our solar system.
Japanese astronomers have announced the theory of an “Earth-like planet” called Planet Nine hiding in plain sight just a few billion miles behind Neptune.
Published last month Published in an astronomical magazineResearchers Patrick Sofia Rikauka and Takashi Ito from Japan’s Kinki University and the country’s National Astronomical Observatory of Japan peered deep into the Kuiper Belt, respectively, looking for signs of planetary bodies.
The Kuiper belt is a huge ring of interstellar objects such as dwarf planets, asteroids, carbon chunks, and icy volatile elements such as methane and ammonia. The Celestial Scrapyard is located just beyond the orbit of Neptune and orbits the Sun like everything else in our solar system.
Rikauka and Ito’s discovery indicates that there are other important objects in the Kuiper belt that have “unusual” properties that suggest the state of the planet, such as its gravitational influence on other objects.
“We predict the existence of Earth-like planets. There were many such objects in the early solar system, and it is possible that protoplanetary bodies survived in the distant Kuiper belt as Kuiper belt planets. “The possibility is plausible,” they wrote in their report. Go to Earth.com.
This new study is not the first to postulate the existence of a ninth planet in our space community, although some astronomers remain unsure that such a planet exists.
Previous research has led to similar theories that there are other planets far beyond our solar system, and Rikauka and Ito are much more massive objects than previously proposed objects, suggesting that we could It indicates a much shorter distance from where you are sitting.
If their calculations work correctly, Planet Nine would have about 1.5 to 3 times the mass of Earth and be 500 times farther away than between our home and the Sun.
California Institute of Technology researchers reportedly came up with a solid theory about Planet Nine in 2014 after observing disturbances in a space object just outside Neptune (also known as a Trans-Neptunian Object, or TNO). He is said to have been the first to come up with the idea.
Another study in 2020 hypothesized that Planet Nine may have been located more centrally in our star system before being blown far away by the birth of Jupiter.
And just this year, another study theorized that this planet might also be a possibility. 20 “hot” satellites on each sidethe temperature is a balmy -280 degrees Fahrenheit.
Some may remember that Pluto was once thought to be the ninth planet in the solar system, until it was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006. Scientists are beginning to realize just how many of them exist.
According to , three criteria must be applied to be considered a full-fledged planet. Go to Space.com: The orbit of the Sun, which is huge and spherical, larger than all the surrounding bodies.
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