New clues point to the existence of a ninth planet in the Solar System

Planet Nine. He is being hunted from all sides. Still haven’t seen it yet. So, does it really exist? Two teams of researchers are now taking a fresh look at it. Maybe who will be able to erase it in the end…

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[EN VIDÉO] The ninth planet is said to be hidden in the solar system
Astronomers believe that there is a ninth planet in the far reaches of the Solar System. This is indicated, according to him, by the special orbits of several objects in the Kuiper Belt and by the special orbits of the dwarf planet Sedna beyond Neptune. Calculations give it between 5 and 10 times the mass of Earth. It will be an ice giant like Neptune. It will currently be in the region of its elliptical orbit farthest from the Sun. It will take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

In recent years, the rumor has increased. A Ninth Planet Will Be Hiding on the Edge of Us Solar System. what put the flea in the ear of astronomers ? NS eye sockets Description of several Kuiper Belt items. All concepts pass from there. Even those who argue that this ninth planet would be a exoplanet Captured by our solar system. or … a little black hole !

Simulations of the evolution of our solar system, for their part, struggle to explain the configuration of this tiny corner of the universe. because they lack information, researchersfrom the University of British Columbia (Canada) and the University of Arizona (USA). They thus suggest a planet the size of ours earth or mars could have arisen among the gas giants before being pushed far beyond the orbit of Neptune .

Because according to astronomers there is something strange in the current configuration of our solar system. He argues that the outer part of our system is unlikely to have four giant planet Then nothing but dwarf planets. Their simulation suggests that there should indeed be planets of other sizes. and a. sum of rocky planetProduces a more accurate model among the giants. At least about the early stages of the evolution of our solar system. Then, it was able to join the dwarf planets. Or even, to be literally expelled into interstellar space.

Planet betrayed by Transneptunian objects

While researchers hope to learn more from the next generation of telescopes that will soon be scanning the skies with unprecedented sharpness, University of Oklahoma Astronomers(United States) also modeledevolution of our solar system . from all four giant planet. and millions of icy objects that reside in the Kuiper Belt disk. All in at least 4 billion years!

Models involving the ninth planet show that distant objects – those that never come close to 40 to 50 times the distance between Earth and us soleil– tend to converge in orbits that have a relatively small inclination with respect to the plane of the solar system. A feature that seems to indicate the presence of a ninth planet. Because it doesn’t show up on the eight-planet model.

So, failing to get your hands on this ninth planet that everyone is talking about, seeing this gathering of distant objects could be new indirect evidence of its existence. Here again, we have to wait for the new devices to be operational. NS heritage survey space and time (lsst) from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, for example. It will begin observing the sky in 2023 and should be able to detect the trans-Neptunian objects that astronomers are looking for so much.

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