Tom Metcalfe – Yahoo News Sept 8, 2021
Astronomer Michael Brown led the campaign that controversially demoted Pluto in 2006 from the ninth planet of our solar system into just one of its many dwarf planets. Now, he hopes to fill the gap he created with what he predicts will be the discovery of a “Planet Nine” — a planet many times the size of Earth that might orbit the sun far beyond Neptune.
“It was definitely not the intention,” said Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the author of the memoir “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming.”
“If I were prescient enough to have had all these ideas ahead of time and then demoted Pluto and found a new Planet Nine, then that would be brilliant — but it really is just a coincidence,” he said.
A study published online in August by Brown and his colleague at Caltech, astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin, re-examines the evidence for a proposal they first suggested in 2016: that the hypothetical Planet Nine could explain anomalies seen by astronomers in the outer solar system, especially the unusual clustering of icy asteroids and cometary cores called Kuiper belt objects. The study has been accepted for publication by the Astronomical Journal, according to National Geographic.
Despite years of looking, Planet Nine has never been seen. As a result, some astronomers have suggested it doesn’t exist and the clustering of objects noted by Brown and Batygin is the result of “observation bias” — since fewer than a dozen objects have been seen, their clustering might be a statistical fluke that wouldn’t be seen among the hundreds thought to exist.
Some astronomers think the undiscovered Planet Nine causes the unusual orbits in the outer solar system of the icy asteroids and cometary cores known as Kuiper belt objects. (Caltech). Click to enlarge
For their latest study, however, Brown and Batygin have added several recent observations of objects, and they’ve calculated that the clustering is almost certainly real — in fact, they found there is only a 0.4 percent chance that it’s a fluke.
That would suggest Planet Nine is almost certainly there — and the new study includes a “treasure map” of its supposed orbit that tells astronomers the best places in the sky to look for it.
Brown is working with data from several astronomical surveys, hoping to catch the first glimpse of Planet Nine. If that search is not successful, he hopes it might be seen in survey data from a new large telescope at the Vera Rubin Observatory in the mountains of northern Chile, which is scheduled to start full operations in 2023.
One of the results of the new study is that the orbit of Planet Nine is closer to the sun than what the 2016 study proposed, with an elongated orbit only about 380 times the distance between Earth and the sun at its closest, instead of more than 400 times that distance.
The closer orbit would make Planet Nine much brighter and much easier to see, Brown said, although their recalculations suggest it’s also a bit smaller — about six times the mass of Earth, instead of up to 20 times as big.
“By virtue of being closer, even if it’s a little less massive, it’s a good bit brighter than we originally anticipated,” he said. “So I’m excited that this is going to help us find it much more quickly.”
If Planet Nine does exist, it’s probably a very cold gas giant like Neptune, rather than a rocky planet like Earth. It would be smaller, however: Neptune is more than 17 times the mass of Earth. But roughly six to 10 times Earth’s mass is the most common size of gas giants seen by astronomers elsewhere in our galaxy, although there are none — so far — in our solar system, Brown said.
While Planet Nine might have formed at such a great distance from the disk of gas around the early sun, it seems likely it formed about the same distance from the sun as Uranus and Neptune, but it was flung off into the outer reaches of the solar system by the strong gravity of Saturn, he said.
He dismissed the suggestion made by astronomers last year that Planet Nine might actually be a black hole orbiting the sun.
“It was almost a joke when they wrote that paper,” he said. “It’s funny and it’s cute — but there is really zero reason to speculate that it might be a black hole.”
As Brown and his colleagues renew their search for Planet Nine with a better idea of where to look, some other astronomers remain skeptical that it even exists.
Physicist Kevin Napier, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, led a study published earlier this year that suggested the clustering of objects in the Kuiper belt was a statistical illusion.
He said in an email that the extremely small number of orbits of objects used as evidence for the existence of Planet Nine — just 11 are known — is unconvincing.
“There is only just so much statistical power one can draw from a dozen data points,” he said.
That means the existence of Planet Nine can only be conjectured until more observations of the outer solar system are made.
“Maybe we will discover a new planet lurking in the darkness, or maybe our discoveries will cause any evidence for clustering to disappear altogether,” he said. “Until then, we will keep searching the sky for new and interesting rocks, and by doing so pull our understanding of our solar system into clearer focus.”
Searching for something you can actually see could be called the greatest cover-up of the century. Time to tell the World.
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A few years ago when l used to use Youtube, there were dozens of videos to do with Operation Fishbowl which was a covert series of experiments by the US airforce using missiles. Every one of these videos have been removed.
The fact that Operation Fishbowl was real would seem to make a nonsense of what we are told about “Space”, planets, suns, moons etc.
“Two things are infinite: universe and human stupidity. But I’m not sure for the universe.”
If it is there and we ever need another ice-cold gas giant the astronomers will have proved their worth and deserve their salaries.
If you allow one new planet into the solar system, it will soon be followed by a million others and they’ll bring ten million of their moons with them.
The music of the spheres will resonate with tinnitus.
Miscegenation between platonic solids will result in unfamiliar shapes everywhere. The visible light spectrum will be seen for what it is. It will make the ultra-violet catastrophe seem like a logarithmic stroll during summer.
Meridian-averse axis. Vector-averse orbit. Scalar calendars. Hologram and hologrim. Planet nine and planet ten, in the sitchin boil and bubble. Double, double, steam and diesel.
I suggest we call it planet Covid, the novel planet that might or might not exist. Pluto seems to have gone the way of seasonal flu and disappeared or maybe not depending on the latest statistics. What a shame Neil Ferguson isn’t an astronomer, he could have have been modeling this on his pocket calculator instead of turning Earth into Planet Fear.
If this turns out to be real, I wonder how often it is visible to Earth….. and how it has played a role in our history.
If Planet Nine had any sense, it would drift away from this solar system and apply to a system in which so many people haven’t lost their bloody minds and where the ruling class isn’t trying to murder everyone else.
Here we go … cue all the flat-earth and Nibiru morons and retards!
What the dumb sheeple who fall for these cheap psyops, such as “flat earth” and “ninth planet”, don’t realize is that these are Tavistock social experiments used to gather data in mass gullibility so that the information can then be used to devise better social control propaganda measures.
Why do the dumb sheeple, the ignorant masses, fall for these childish fairy tales?
They’ve just caught up with the Hindus, who knew that there was another planet 3000 years ago.
i want to say, Astronomer Michael Brown might learn one or two things, maybe more if he goes and have a scientific discussion with the script writers of The Big Bang Theory…..hahahaha
3 simple steps to find nibiru/planetX.
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@Ronan barbarians
Nothing is more childish than believing we travel through space on a ball!
At speeds that are all satanic 666 numbers. Constellations never change.
If Mercury & Mars are between Earth & Sun as heliocentric model says, how can I watch both at night with my P900 camera? I should only be able to see with the Sun behind both. Can you direct me to anything that proves we live on a ball? 🤔
@ Toby.
There is insufficient data to prove either that we live on a spheroid or a plane. Flat-Earth advocates have done enough for me, at least, to acknowledge that the consensus model of the Earth is untenable. However, I’m not especially persuaded by the alternative paradigm, posited by the “planar lobby.”
If it’s given that there’s insufficient evidence to definitively settle the dispute, our minds should remain alert to contrary hypotheses.
There are other interpretative frameworks that might be applied.
If crystal geometry were to express as geodesy, the Earth, conceivably, could be cubic or rhombic of shape.
Plasma theory contends an electrical cosmology and would have the Earth as toroidal; defined by its magnetic fields.
The Vedic tradition speaks of a great river flowing through the centre of the Earth, emerging from one pole to circuit round and enter the Earth again at its antipode.
To any FE adherents: it is a psy-op on a different scale than usual and was exposed by Alfred Bester in the 1950s, pre-figuring Cathy O’ Brien. Nazi Jews like Edward Teller are behind it. It would be illegal to believe in Space or even the sun, on pain of death. Orwell also gives it oblique attention.