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Five different lines observational evidence pointing to the existence Planet Nine
Highlight five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of the mysterious world called Planet Nine
The space agency highlight five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of the mysterious world called Planet Nine including.....
1. Six known objects in the distant Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies stretching from Neptune towards interstellar space, all have elliptical orbits pointing in the same direction.
2. These orbits are tilted the same way, about 30 degrees downward compared to the pancake-like plane within which the planets orbit the sun.
3. Computer simulations of the solar system with Planet Nine show that there should be more objects tilted with respect to the solar plane and the tilt would be on the order of 90 degrees as if the plane of the solar system and these objects formed an "X" when viewed edge-on.
4. Planet Nine could have tilted the planets of our solar system during the last 4.5 billion years.
5. The telltale sign of Planet Nine's presence involves objects from the Kuiper Belt that orbit in the opposite direction in the solar system. Planet Nine’s orbital influence would explain why these bodies from the distant Kuiper Belt end up polluting the inner Kuiper belt.
NASA Scientists are using the Subaru Telescope at Mauna Kea Observation in Hawaii to find out extremely distant objects lost in huge swaths of sky.
If discovered, Planet Nine could turn out to be the missing super-Earth- a planet with a mass higher than the Earth’s, but substantially lower than the masses of ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
