An artistic interpretation of a possible Ninth Planet located on the edge of our system
It is likely that at the edge of our solar system, among the icy objects, a mysterious Ninth Planet lurked, capable of influencing the orbital paths of bodies and even tilting the system.
The hypothetical world should be 10 times greater than the Earth and away from the Sun at a distance of 20 times the orbit of Neptune. At this moment there are 5 lines of observation, hinting at the presence of a mysterious object.
Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown continue to beat this puzzle. First of all, the planet is indicated by objects in the Kuiper belt, whose elliptical orbits are located in a single direction. Moreover, they are also the same - they are directed downwards by 30 degrees. Another clue was an article from Elizabeth Bailey, who suggested that the Ninth Planet has been tilted to the system for the last 4.5 billion years. But the clearest argument is of course the trans-Neptunian bodies (TNO), whose orbital quirks cannot be explained by another reason (there is a high slope).
Now remains the most difficult thing - to find the Ninth Planet. For this, Batygin and Brown use the Subaru telescope. They believe that this is the best tool for finding dull distant objects.
But how did the planet appear? Batygin believes that this is a fugitive from our solar system or a wandering planet attracted by solar gravity. Many believe that the planet has already fallen into global TNO surveys, but has not yet paid attention to itself.
There is even an opinion that this is a missing super-Earth. The fact is that in other systems there are objects with a size between Neptune and the Earth, located closer to the Sun. Perhaps the Ninth Planet is just our missing.
