News Archive / Tagged: Planet 9
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Papers present evidence for super Earth in the outer solar system
Laurel KornfeldMarch 1st, 2019Two new academic papers present new evidence that a large, as yet undiscovered planet is lurking in the outer solar system.
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Website funded by NASA enables citizens to search for objects beyond Neptune
Collin SkocikFebruary 26th, 2017With the groundbreaking discovery of seven Earth-sized planets orbiting the red dwarf TRAPPIST-1, readers might be interested to know that NASA has a website called "Backyard Worlds: Planet 9" – which allows everyday people to participate in the search for new worlds.
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New Horizons could help us locate possible planets beyond Neptune
Tomasz NowakowskiFebruary 10th, 2016The recent discovery of evidence of a giant planet lurking in the outskirts of the Solar System made by Caltech astronomers has re-ignited the discussion about the existence of planets beyond Neptune. We could be really on the verge of confirming the presence of a hypothetical ‘Planet Nine’ and NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, our messenger to Pluto and trans-Neptunian objects might have the final word in this debate.
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Scientists find evidence of ‘Planet Nine’
Jim SharkeyJanuary 22nd, 2016Two scientists from Caltech have discovered evidence of a giant planet with a bizarre, elongated orbit in the outer Solar System. The object, dubbed "Planet Nine" by the scientists, has a mass of about 10 times that of Earth and orbits the Sun at an average distance of approximately 20 times farther away than does Neptune; it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make one orbit around the Sun.
