THE UNIVERSAL
Thursday January 21, 2016 8:23 a.m.
The object” has a mass close 10 times that of the Earth “and is” an extravagant and highly elongated orbit in the distant solar system, “said CalTech University research reported in the trade publication Astronomical Journal.
“In fact, this new planet would take 10,000 to 20,000 years to complete one orbit around the sun.” Konstantin Batygin and researchers say Mike Brown found the planet by designing computer and mathematical simulations, but have not seen the object directly.
The celestial body has about 5,000 times the mass of Pluto, It has been listed since 2006 as a dwarf planet in the solar system.
Scientists believe that the seriousness of the alleged planet has affected the movement of the dwarf planets of the outer solar system, basically disrupting the heavenly bodies the region of debris beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper Belt.
“As a parent who keeps the arc traveled by a child on a swing through newspapers shoving, pushing the planet orbits Nine objects in the distant Kuiper Belt so that its configuration relative to the planet is preserved, “said CalTech in a statement.
The planet could have been expelled during the early formation of the solar system, when four large nuclei concentrated gas and formed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Perhaps the Planet Nine represents a fifth core that might have come too close to Jupiter or Saturn and being expelled to their current and distant orbit said Brown.
Currently, a number of powerful telescopes are trying to hunt down the Planet Nine.
“For the first time in over 150 years, there is strong evidence that the census of planets in the solar system is incomplete, “the statement said.
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