Planet Fucking X... again??

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/01/20/new-evidence-suggests-a-ninth-planet-lurking-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system/?wpisrc=al_alert-national

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Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced Wednesday that they have found new evidence of a giant icy planet lurking in the darkness of our solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto. They are calling it "Planet Nine."

Their paper, published in the Astronomical Journal, describes the planet as about five to 10 times as massive as the Earth. But the authors, astronomers Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin, have not observed the planet directly.

Instead, they have inferred its existence from the motion of recently discovered dwarf planets and other small objects in the outer solar system. Those smaller bodies have orbits that appear to be influenced by the gravity of a hidden planet – a "massive perturber." The astronomers suggest it might have been flung into deep space long ago by the gravitational force of Jupiter or Saturn.

Seems like they've got more evidence for it this time.

"We've been looking for it for a while now, but the sky is pretty big," Brown said.

Fucking smart-ass.

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Topic: Planet Fucking X... again??

asbie

OP - January 20, 2016, 08:28 PM

Cheetah

Reply #1 - January 20, 2016, 09:14 PM

Absurdist

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