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This orbit is particularly enticing since it puts TG387 in a select group of distant Solar System objects that all point to the possible existence of Planet X. Right now, there are 14 far-out space rocks that all share similar orbit patterns, suggesting that this planet is out there. Their paths are all super elongated, and they all cluster together in the same area when they approach the Sun. Plus, their orbits are all tilted alike, and they point in the same general direction, as if something big has pushed them into similar places. These objects are the strongest lines of evidence astronomers have for Planet X, and finding a new one that matches this pattern reinforces that idea that this planet is more than just a theory.
The closest it ever gets to the Sun is 65 Astronomical Units (AU), or 65 times the distance between the Sun and the Earth. For reference, Pluto only gets as far as 49 AUs from the Sun.
originally posted by: drewlander
a reply to: vinifalou
If Pluto is not Planet IX, then is this still Planet X?
originally posted by: ressiv
such an joke...if they discouver the position of the real planet nasa and all sienctist would be praised into heaven for there discouvery…
but the real thing is that the extistense of the planet was already written 4000 bc by the semurians later by the aztecs
ect...
originally posted by: St Udio
I just cannot understand how-it-is-that up to 14 long elliptical orbit objects are orbiting a Planet 9, which is also in Its own orbit around our central Sun
originally posted by: drewlander
a reply to: Soylent Green Is People
You mean to tell me in 1845 that Neptune was called Planet X?
I do admit that X is a variable and not necessarily a Roman numeral, but I do not believe its correct that any planet astronomers are in search of is dubbed "Planet X". Percivsl Lowell used the term "Planet X" in 1906 which would have been the ninth planet since Pluto was not discovered until 1930. William Pickering used more than a half dozen letters in search of planets starting with O because O comes after N (Neptune).
originally posted by: watersabove
^ So at 'just' 186mi wide, its like just the 'breadcrumbs' leading up to a possibly much bigger planet that swings by Sol/earth every 4,000 yrs or so like Halebob?