richard09
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NoCoPilot
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| | Subject: Re: CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET Wed 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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richard09
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| | Subject: Re: CALTECH RESEARCHERS FIND EVIDENCE OF A REAL NINTH PLANET Wed 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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richard09
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