The New Ninth Planet - Sixty Symbols
Evidence suggests that a ninth large planet might be lurking well beyond Pluto. Discussed here by Professor Mike Merrifield, an astronomer at the University of Nottingham. Read the paper about...
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It's evidence for a distant giant planet in the Solar System.So the authors here are Batygin and Brown,and a big part of the reason why we're back down to eight planetsis because Brown is—his other name is—he's better known as @plutokillerbecause he's the guy who kinda got Pluto demoted from planet status to justanother dwarf planet by basically discovering lots of other dwarf planetsand pointing out that Pluto really is nothing special, and if we're not careful we're gonnaend up with thousands of planets in the Solar System this way.So he's killed one, and clearly guilt has gotten the better of him'cause now he's trying to bring one back.Basically, they found evidence for a large-ish ninth p...
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It's evidence for a distant giant planet in the Solar System.So the authors here are Batygin and Brown,and a big part of the reason why we're back down to eight planetsis because Brown is—his other name is—he's better known as @plutokillerbecause he's the guy who kinda got Pluto demoted from planet status to justanother dwarf planet by basically discovering lots of other dwarf planetsand pointing out that Pluto really is nothing special, and if we're not careful we're gonnaend up with thousands of planets in the Solar System this way.So he's killed one, and clearly guilt has gotten the better of him'cause now he's trying to bring one back.Basically, they found evidence for a large-ish ninth p...
