Calm your conspiracy theories, new look suggests Planet Nine is just a pipe dream

Calm your conspiracy theories, new look suggests Planet Nine is just a pipe dream

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/05/what_planet_nine/

The mysterious, so-called Planet Nine, may not be a planet after all but just gravitational trickery, according to a new study.

A team of researchers have published a new theory explaining why objects on the edge of the Solar System like Sedna - classified as a large minor planet - have such weird, giant circular orbits. Sedna circles round the Sun at a distance of a whopping eight billion miles, making it one of the most distant objects in the Solar System, other than faraway comets.

Calm your conspiracy theories, new look suggests Planet Nine is just a pipe dream

Jun 5, 2018, 12:38am UTC
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/05/what_planet_nine/ > The mysterious, so-called Planet Nine, may not be a planet after all but just gravitational trickery, according to a new study. > A team of researchers have published a new theory explaining why objects on the edge of the Solar System like Sedna - classified as a large minor planet - have such weird, giant circular orbits. Sedna circles round the Sun at a distance of a whopping eight billion miles, making it one of the most distant objects in the Solar System, other than faraway comets.