Scientists: Good evidence for 9th planet in solar system

[tovaris]

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/nwitimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/68/d68e3053-7f2c-5178-bbbe-ea0e23a79d12/56a02f414e69a.image.jpg?resize=620%2C370


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Scientists reported Wednesday they finally have "good evidence" for Planet X, a true ninth planet on the fringes of our solar system.

The gas giant is thought to be almost as big as Neptune and orbiting billions of miles beyond Neptune's path — distant enough to take 10,000 to 20,000 years to circle the sun.

This Planet 9, as the two California Institute of Technology researchers call it, hasn't been spotted yet. They base their findings on mathematical and computer modeling, and anticipate its discovery via telescope within five years or less.

Full artice and source:
http://www.nwitimes.com/news/national/scientists-good-evidence-for-th-planet-in-solar-system/article_56a50d7f-789c-5f73-93ac-3bf9eb13befc.html

[dxcxdzv]

After Attack of Pluto here's The Trans-Neptunian Objects Revenge.

*run*

[dzoni]

Maybe they missed a + sign somewhere in the calculations.. Guess we'll find out in 5 years.

[Judean Zealot]

Ironic how this is the same fellow who got Pluto knocked out.

From what I've seen the calculations add up, and would answer many questions.

[Stronk Serb]

Maybe they missed a + sign somewhere in the calculations.. Guess we'll find out in 5 years.

Well, typically you mess up with the minus before the brackets. Still, would be nice to get a Pluto replacement.

[phuckphace]

Planet 9 from Outer Outer Outer Space

[northy]

This is an interesting example of how we know about things so far away and yet still don't know how many planets are in the solar system. The scope of human knowledge against the universe is most interesting.

[Jinglebottom]

I hope it's suitable for human life...

[Judean Zealot]

I hope it's suitable for human life...

It's a Gas Planet. Also, it's gravity would be too strong for us, on account of it's huge size.

[Jinglebottom]

It's a Gas Planet. Also, it's gravity would be too strong for us, on account of it's huge size.
I know, the above was just wishful thinking. :whoops:

[SethfromMI]

Pluto will always be a planet to me (lol not that I really care either way)

[sqishy]

It's a Gas Planet. Also, it's gravity would be too strong for us, on account of it's huge size.
The '1-Earth-atmosphere-pressure-level' (bear with me) surface gravity of Neptune is 1.14 g; of Uranus it is 0.886 g. Not that bad (We'd have other issues rather than gravity to deal with).

By contrast, the surface gravity of the Sun is 27.94 g.



Even if we find it, it'll be extremely dim, and there are no space probes anywhere near it (New Horizons is moving in the opposite direction to the theorised area where it is). Being estimated to be at least 20 billion km away from the Sun, that's about the distance Voyager 1 has taken 38 years to reach.

It is really far away.

[phuckphace]

cot damn 20,000-year orbital period, paging Justin Trudeau

just imagine how many women and POCs he could fit in his colonial space government with a current year that long

[sqishy]

cot damn 20,000-year orbital period, paging Justin Trudeau

just imagine how many women and POCs he could fit in his colonial space government with a current year that long

sure is relevant -_-

[Uniquemind]

So does this somewhat validate all those 2012 Planet X conspiracy theorists then, specifically when they cited cave drawings of what appeared to be our solar system indicating one more planet than what modern science taught was in our solar system?

[Microcosm]

Added Brown: "We have felt a great disturbance in the force."



Okay, Doctor Brown. I'm sold.

I'd also like to add my own conclusion:
http://imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/aliens-1444939139.jpg?quality=0.8&format=jpg&width=980

This is a pretty neat prediction/discovery. I look forward to seeing whether it's true or not.

[phuckphace]

So does this somewhat validate all those 2012 Planet X conspiracy theorists then, specifically when they cited cave drawings of what appeared to be our solar system indicating one more planet than what modern science taught was in our solar system?

nope. there's simply no way any prehistoric or pre-Modern society would've been able to detect something so far away. it's a case of random chance that a wild-ass-guess turned out to be true, sort of like how a billion VT posters posting randomly for a billion years will eventually write Mein Kampf.

as for colonization, it's so far away that the Sun would look just like any other bright star, and probably cold enough for oxygen to freeze out. the best chance we have at colonization of another planet is probably in the upper atmosphere of Venus, where breathable air is a lifting gas and you wouldn't need a pressure suit (just something like a HAZMAT suit for the sulfuric acid).

[Moriya]

I'm my book Planet X is the 10th planet in our Solar System. Pluto's still a planet to me. Don't care if NASA says otherwise :no:

[Uniquemind]

Okay, Doctor Brown. I'm sold.

I'd also like to add my own conclusion:
image (http://imagesmtv-a.akamaihd.net/uri/mgid:file:http:shared:mtv.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/aliens-1444939139.jpg?quality=0.8&format=jpg&width=980)

This is a pretty neat prediction/discovery. I look forward to seeing whether it's true or not.

Just so you know "ancient aliens" series has been debunked it was very poorly researched, before they started making claims.


nope. there's simply no way any prehistoric or pre-Modern society would've been able to detect something so far away. it's a case of random chance that a wild-ass-guess turned out to be true, sort of like how a billion VT posters posting randomly for a billion years will eventually write Mein Kampf.

as for colonization, it's so far away that the Sun would look just like any other bright star, and probably cold enough for oxygen to freeze out. the best chance we have at colonization of another planet is probably in the upper atmosphere of Venus, where breathable air is a lifting gas and you wouldn't need a pressure suit (just something like a HAZMAT suit for the sulfuric acid).

So you've at least seen the cave drawing of the rings of planets orbiting a sun, with exactly one extra planet right that mirrors our own right?

I don't think that's coincidence given the specificity of the information.

[phuckphace]

^I've seen pics of cave drawings that are interpreted as a starmap, yes. but in any case it's really difficult to draw any definite conclusions since the society which produced them were preliterate and left no records. for all we know the paintings of deer and bison could've had religious significance or it could've just been the Cro-Magnon teen's way of letting us know Choonga Boonga got a thick booty and she like to twerk

[Microcosm]

Just so you know "ancient aliens" series has been debunked it was very poorly researched, before they started making claims.

Yeah I know. The theories on there are extremely far-fetched. I was using him as a meme for comedy.

[lliam]

sweet. another fairy planet like Pluto was.