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Planet Nine?
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I still count Pluto as the Number Nine Planet even though it has been demoted. Should I would consider another planet to be number 10. 
The main thing I disliked about getting rid of Pluto is it messes up all those Star Trek episodes where they talk about our solar system having 9 planets. If they do find this, at least that will fix the continuity.
A little bit of a detour, but did anyone catch NPR's Science Friday last week? There was a segment called "For Planet-Seakers, a Cautionary Tale" where they talked about the "discovery" of Planet Vulcan inside Mercury's orbit and how Einstein destroyed the idea. All of this is based on the same orbital mathmatics that Brown is using to find Planet 9. Very interesting lesson in history.
Thanks for that, really interesting listening to that over my break.
As long as they don't name this new planet Unicron, I'll be happy. Because $DEITY knows we sure as hell don't have an Autobot Matrix of Leadership to stop it.
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Agreed. I just finished listening to it as well.Thanks for that, really interesting listening to that over my break.
Actually at the end the started up talking about something about an eclipse and they cut him off for time. Grr.
Actually yes that's exactly what I mean. And your response is very typical lol
I suspect that at some future point we will come to realize there is a lot more in our neighborhood than was ever conceptualized.
Good question, because it would then cause the entire Kuiper Belt to readjust, which would in turn cause a redesignation of all of the dwarf planets. We would still need to figure out why Pluto, let alone the entire belt has an elliptical orbit instead of a circular one. If we go on that premise, we would also have to ask what would have caused it to be ejected.
A theory could be that there were two other planets outside Neptune's orbit that collided, and that collision caused the other trans-Neptunian objects to be ejected plus change their orbital path. But either way it would cause another conundrum: If Planet 9 still maintained its orbit and nothing is in the path of its orbit, it would meet the 3 criteria for being a planet, but the other TNOs would not, making them still to be dwarf planets.
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Going from the Sun revolving around the Earth to the Earth revolving around the Sun to a sun revolving around the Sun
Yea how can My Very Educated Mother Just Delivered Us Nine Pizzas without PlutoI still count Pluto as the Number Nine Planet even though it has been demoted. Should I would consider another planet to be number 10.
If that were the case, wouldn't any of the trans-Neptunian objects in and outside of the Kuiper Belt (the dwarf planets, Sedna, Orcus, etc.) be pulled towards the black hole instead of staying in its elliptical orbit around the sun?
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I'm in defense of Pluto's status and place in Astrology, at least. No matter what astronomers chose to call it now and its lost planetary status. More and more planetary /astronomical objects of interest are discovered however, and how we are linked and affected by them, are a study that changes as we do.
Hopefully Earth doesn’t lose its status as our home, not just yet anyway.
Looking forward to when our alien buddies will consider us mature enough to get to know them more though. I wonder what status they have given our beautiful planet and us?
Hopefully Earth doesn’t lose its status as our home, not just yet anyway.
Looking forward to when our alien buddies will consider us mature enough to get to know them more though. I wonder what status they have given our beautiful planet and us?
That all depends on the mass. A black hole with say 10X Earth mass is exactly the same as planet with 10X Earth mass. So it may not be big enough to do more than tug slightly on them, which where the whole predictions of Planet 9 come from in the first place.
Here is an article on it:
Is Our Solar System's Mysterious 'Planet 9' Really a Grapefruit-Size Black Hole?
It probably isn't a black hole, if it exists at all. But two physicists think we should check to see if it's a black hole anyway.