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  1. #arXiv #Planet9 Measuring the Mean Plane of the Distant Kuiper Belt arxiv.org/abs/2508.14156 a warp relative to the invariable plane at semimajor axes of 80-400 AU (98% confidence) and 80-200 AU (96% confidence), but not at 50-80 AU or 200-400 AU.

  2. A ‘Warp’ In Our #SolarSystem Might Be an Undiscovered World: #PlanetY
    In addition to #PlanetNine, the solar system may also contain a closer, smaller world that could be spotted soon.
    The newly proposed planet, assuming it exists, is predicted to be somewhere between Mercury and Earth in scale, which would likely make it detectable within the next few years. It is distinct from #Planet9 or #PlanetX, much larger and more distant than #Planet Y.
    404media.co/a-warp-in-our-sola
    archive.ph/9Xj6A

  3. Japanisches #Subaru-Teleskop hat mit Ammonite erst den vierten bekannten Sednoid jenseits der Neptun-Umlaufbahn entdeckt. Seine ungewöhnliche Bahn könnte auf die Existenz des hypothetischen #Planet9 hindeuten. winfuture.de/news,152374.html?

  4. [video] Astronomers discover a 4th sednoid in our Solar System. Ammonite, the “new” cosmic “fossil,” questions the entire theory about the hypothetical Planet 9.
    news-cafe.eu/?go=news&n=13714
    #sednoid #planet9 #planetnine #solarsystem #space #cosmos #universe #research #science #astronomy

  5. Evidence of controversial #Planet9 uncovered in sky surveys taken 23 years apart
    If the object really is #PlanetNine, it would be larger than Neptune and exist 700 times further from the sun than Earth.
    Planet Nine was put forward in 2016 by Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin of the California Institute of Technology to explain an unusual bunching of orbits of some objects in the #KuiperBelt, such as #Sedna.
    space.com/astronomy/solar-syst

  6. Forscher haben ein extremes Objekt am Rand des #Sonnensystems entdeckt: 2017 OF201 hat 700 km Durchmesser und eine stark gestreckte Bahn. Ein Umlauf dauert 25.000 Jahre. Dieser Fund stellt die Theorie des #Planet9 infrage. winfuture.de/news,151127.html?

  7. As one avenue to Planet 9 closes so another one could open, this latest object will help some theories while quash others, such is the beauty of Science.

    And do not anthropomorphise Pluto, it's just a minor planet, not a sad puppy being demoted.

    cosmiclog.com/2025/05/22/a-cou

    #KuiperBelt #MinorPlanets #2017OF201 #Planet9 #Astronomy #Space

  8. Add another potential dwarf #planet to the list for our solar system - and this one challenges claims relating to the hypothetical existence of a large world known as #PlanetX or #Planet9 ... cosmiclog.com/2025/05/22/a-cou #2017OF201 #PlanetNine #Space #DwarfPlanet

  9. This is interesting! Possible Planet 9 candidate found in two far-infrared sky surveys; IRAS (1983) and AKARI (2006). Obviously this is not a confirmation and more observations are needed to confirm it. But sounds promising! #Planet9 space.com/astronomy/solar-syst

  10. The #US is failing to #Explore #Water on the #Moon as the principal goal of #Artemis : Medium

    The #Animals That Exist Between #Life and #Death : Misc

    #Evidence of #Controversial #Planet9 uncovered in #Sky #Surveys taken 23 years apart : Space

    Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

    knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

  11. As this year progresses, the @VRubinObs 🔭 will start building up a baseline picture of the sky, and by the end of the year it should have started detecting changes and making that data available to the #astronomy community.

    At that point, we can get serious about trying to find #Planet9 🌌 ksfr.org/npr-news/2025-04-09/i

  12. Took astronomers 23 years to spot it? This planet's hide-and-seek game is legendary! 🌌

    Scientists may have found Planet 9 lurking in old infrared surveys - a massive world bigger than Neptune, chilling about 700x further from the Sun than Earth.

    Now they just need to find where it wandered off to since 2006... 🔭

    #Astronomy #Planet9

    https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/0118242/evidence-of-controversial-planet-9-uncovered-in-sky-surveys-taken-23-years-apart

  13. Die Feiertagspause ist vorbei und Franzi erzählt, wie Pluto als neunter Planet entdeckt wurde und wie es direkt Zweifel an ihm gab. Und wie danach immer klarer wurde: Der ist gar kein Planet. Aber was ist er dann?

    ➡️ astrogeo.de/kein-herz-fuer-plu 🪐 👎

    Wenn ihr trotz alledem ein Herz für Pluto habt: Bear with us. Wir mögen ihn ja auch, den Zwerg, und zwar so wie er ist! 💙

    #astrodon #space #pluto #planet #planet9

  14. Is there a hidden planet in our solar system? Astronomers say the moment of truth is near
    @CNN

    「 Because objects in the Kuiper Belt are so far away from the sun, however, they are difficult to spot. For more than a decade, astronomers have been searching that area for a hidden planet that has never been observed, but its presence is inferred by the behavior of other nearby objects. It’s often called Planet X or Planet Nine 」

    edition.cnn.com/2024/11/04/sci

    #planet9 #astronomy #space

  15. I feel like 75% of #exoplanet astronomers get confused by planets in binary systems for some reason...
    The simplest configuration is planets orbiting stars which also have a stellar companion. A large fraction of star systems are wide binaries so this is very common, and honestly not that interesting. Imagine if the Sun had an M-dwarf instead of #Planet9. Both stars could even host planets (unless the stellar companion is particularly close/large). Examples: Kepler-444, HD80606, Proxima Cen, etc

  16. phys.org/news/2024-04-evidence

    In 2015, a pair of astronomers at Caltech found several objects bunched together beyond Neptune's orbit…they theorized…due to the pull of gravity from an unknown planet—one that later came to be called #Planet9.

    Since that time, researchers have found more evidence of the planet, all of it circumstantial…

    The work involved tracking the movements of long-period objects that cross Neptune's orbit and exhibit irregular movements during their journey.

  17. [2404.11594] Generation of Low-Inclination, Neptune-Crossing TNOs by Planet Nine

    arxiv.org/abs/2404.11594
    #astrodon #planet9

    My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?

  18. Die hypothetische Lösung für kosmische Bewegungen ferner Himmelskörper: Hinter dem Pluto zieht #Planet9 seine Bahnen. Die bisher erfolglose Suche könnte jetzt dank einer neuen Studie an Fahrt gewinnen: winfuture.de/news,141473.html?