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PostSubject: CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET   CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET EmptyWed Jan 20, 2016 4:53 pm

This got mentioned all over the place, but this article contains a bit more detail.

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PostSubject: Re: CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET   CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET EmptyWed Jan 20, 2016 5:13 pm

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The six most distant known objects in the solar system with orbits exclusively beyond Neptune (magenta) all mysteriously line up in a single direction. Also, when viewed in three dimensions, they tilt nearly identically away from the plane of the solar system. Batygin and Brown show that a planet with 10 times the mass of the earth in a distant eccentric orbit anti-aligned with the other six objects (orange) is required to maintain this configuration.
I don't understand the maths on this, but I'm willing to believe these guys do. That's a neat piece of deduction.
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PostSubject: Re: CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET   CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET EmptyWed Jan 20, 2016 8:00 pm

Me too.

From the comments, it's not something you would necessarily expect, but simulation shows it to be true.
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PostSubject: Re: CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET   CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET EmptyTue Oct 25, 2016 6:06 am

I love it. As observation equipment and techniques get better and better, we keep finding more and more weird stuff, even within the solar system.

What's Up with 'Niku'? Object's Weird Orbit Puzzles Scientists
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