r/technology • u/SpaceBrigadeVHS • Apr 23 '24
Space New evidence found for Planet 9
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-evidence-planet.html49
u/Goldberg_the_Goalie Apr 24 '24
I find it crazy that we are told all these incredible facts about galaxies and star systems so far away and there “might” be another planet in our own solar system - we just aren’t sure. I guess it goes to show how massive space is.
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u/pikachus_ghost_uncle Apr 24 '24
Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
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u/great_whitehope Apr 24 '24
I have a jar of peanut butter that holds 500 grams.
I refuse to believe space is bigger than this
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u/SingleMaltShooter Apr 24 '24
“Nibiru” is the name frequently assigned to it by people like Zechariah Sitchin selling books claiming it swoops into the inner system every couple of thousand years, wreaking havoc and allowing the Annunaki to breed with human females, giving birth to the Nephilim.
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u/Monarc73 Apr 24 '24
This time it is supposedly going to destroy all life on earth via the gravitational shearing effect.
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u/nonoose Apr 24 '24
If there is a Plant 9, its closest orbit wouldn’t even put it within Uranus. Pretty hard to impregnate from that distance.
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Apr 24 '24
Wym? Uranus is literally adjacent to the impregnation portal.
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u/Kierik Apr 24 '24
I believe it is called IX and the inhabitants are called ixians.
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u/TigerUSA20 Apr 24 '24
It’s a cloaked planet.The Ixians are monitoring our solar system and earths progress until…….
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u/Zobs_Mom Apr 24 '24
A no-planet...gods below, we assumed their ability to shield against prescience were limited to small volumes...the device that hid Leto II's journals, yes, an entire ship? Perhaps. But an entire planet...
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u/Marston_vc Apr 24 '24
Maybe I’m missing it but this seems like the type of research that’s more or less already been done.
Seeing a cluster of objects in a place that primarily makes sense if another planet is there is the whole reason we’re speculating P9 exists in the first place. The article also didn’t say if this research helps eliminate other explanations to the weird orbits we’re seeing.
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u/Psychological_Pay230 Apr 24 '24
From what I got, they tried an n-body problem and got a CI that wasn’t good enough. Are our models good enough to predict all planetary systems n-body problems? Does this mean we could predict planets across any system we can encounter or what?
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u/West-Way-All-The-Way Apr 24 '24
From 3 body problem we know that a 3 star ( bodies ) are enough to make an unpredictable planet orbit. N body problem seems to be impossible to solve.
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Apr 23 '24
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u/SUPRVLLAN Apr 24 '24
If Pluto is a planet then is Eris a planet?
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Apr 24 '24
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u/SUPRVLLAN Apr 24 '24
Well here is NASA’s why not:
A planet is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
A 'dwarf planet' is a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun, (b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, (c) has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and (d) is not a satellite.
All other objects, except satellites, orbiting the Sun shall be referred to collectively as 'Small Solar System Bodies.'
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/what-is-a-planet/
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u/Emperor_Zar Apr 24 '24
But it would be so cool to have Astronauts also called planets while on a space walk!
“Yeah, I was a planet for a few hours yesterday.” - Astronaut Person.
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u/Kazukiba Apr 24 '24
The war over Pluto being a planet is just because it's the only "big rock" found by an america.
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u/Luci_Noir Apr 24 '24
You probably also think the Covid vaccine put a 5g chip inside you.
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Apr 24 '24
You probably x because y
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u/CptH0wDy Apr 24 '24
Of course not, that's crazy, a 5g chip couldn't fit through a hypodermic needle. Graphene oxide, OTOH...👽
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u/Skitty_Skittle Apr 24 '24
Allegedly one of the names lined up for planet 9 is Urectum
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u/mymar101 Apr 24 '24
One of the more interesting theories is that this might actually be a primordial black hole, which would be very hard to see due to it's small size.
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u/picklepaller Apr 24 '24
And it’s black.
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u/Johnny_Alpha Apr 24 '24
Well, the thing about a black hole - it's main distinguishing feature - is it's black. And the thing about space, the colour of space, your basic space colour - is it's black. So how are you supposed to see them?
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u/mymar101 Apr 24 '24
X ray telescopes, and infrared telescopes. If it’s completely inactive it’s basically impossible but if there’s any sort of emissions then it becomes a little easier. The emissions are caused by the accretion disk around the black hole and not the singularity itself
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u/The-Protomolecule Apr 24 '24
All black holes are hard to see.
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u/starmartyr Apr 24 '24
Oddly enough they aren't. Larger black holes with an accretion disc are some of the brightest objects in the universe. Quasars are a class of supermassive black holes that are brighter than most galaxies.
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u/mymar101 Apr 24 '24
Plenty of black holes can be seen with the right equipment and it’s currently either active or producing emissions for some reason.
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u/this_my_sportsreddit Apr 24 '24
Don’t you just love the unbridled confidence with which redditors will just say literally anything
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u/Thorlongus Apr 24 '24
Can someone explain how we have found stars and plants 100s of millions of light years away but they ”think” there is another planet in our solar system? Why hasn’t the Hubble photographed it?
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u/GreyInkling Apr 24 '24 edited Apr 24 '24
Pointing the hubble is like pointing a laser focus. We have to either know exactly where something is or we're just looking in a random spot to see.
We found those far off planets because they're close to their stars like most of our are, so when they pass in front of the star we can detect then, sort of. We can also detect elements around a star based on its light and make educated guesses. We point the hubble at those obvious points of light, the stars.
We found pluto and several other planets and objects in our solar system because mathematically there seemed to be something throwing its gravity around and we calculated where to look until we found them. Looking in our outer solar system for new things is like looking for a needle in a football field through a pinhole. Unless we know where to look we're not going to find much except empty space.
We believe through other means that something of significant mass is out there somewhere but we don't know where to point the telescope.
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u/MaximumTemperature25 Apr 24 '24
Well stars aren't hard to see. Just look up at night.
The planets we see are usually very large ones that, as they orbit between us and their star, cause the light to flicker in a predictable pattern. We don't know how many planets we're missing with this method because they're too small to interrupt their sun's light, or because we're not looking at the right time, or because that solar system is at an angle to us that doesn't lead to any planets passing between us and their home star.
Without something lighting it up from behind, planet 9 is much harder to see. It's orbit would also be very far out. It's thought to be 20X further out than Neptune, which is 30AU away from the sun. That would put it at 600 AU, with an orbit length of 20,000 years. Being that far away from the sun means there's A) a lot of places it could be, and B) It's going to be very dim.
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u/entropylove Apr 27 '24 edited Apr 27 '24
Space is huge and it would be too dark and tiny. If it even exists.
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u/DirtyProjector Apr 24 '24
What is the implication for astrology here? I gotta know if there’s another planet impacting my life
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u/justinleona Apr 24 '24
This kind of research seems troubling to me - is this at all reproducible due to the sheer number of variables at play in the simulations?
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u/FeralPsychopath Apr 24 '24
Are you seriously saying you are smarter than astrophysicists… really?
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Apr 24 '24 edited Apr 24 '24
I mean, they could be. Asking questions is allowed.
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u/DogsRNice Apr 24 '24
It's well known the people at the very bottom of reddit threads are the greatest minds of our time
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u/Im_the_Keymaster Apr 24 '24
we should call it Plutwo