Hey Guys I'm here and let's get technical.
Did you know that 100% of people watching this video are alive?
Omg, guess what, guess what
A new planet was discovered!
Ahh, would you look at that.
Now, you may have heard of a friend or a coworker point this out in the last couple of weeks.
And you might have thought to yourself, "Looks like we'll have to change this thing."
But you probably thought to yourself, "What!"
So here's everything you need to know about the new ninth planet.
Let's get one thing straight, no one actually saw this planet.
The people who discovers pretty much declared that it probably might exist.
Confused? Good! Because if you were you wouldn't need this video
Let's begin. Evidence for this planet was found on Wednesday January 20, 2016
by Celtic Astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown
So here you might know Mike Brown because he was instrumental in demoting Pluto to a dwarf planet.
Always, how did they discover it?
I mean if it were as pointing a telescope at the sky, we probably would have found it by now.
Unless, mass hysteria has ensued and everyone has forgotten how to use the telescope!
Ahhhh! Okay Good
Astronomers didn't find this planet using telescopes
Oh no, they found it using the power of MAATH
Let me explain,
Up until 1781, community knew of only six planet.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
We only knew of these six planets because these were the only planets we could see with the naked eye.
And we were living on Earth so we knew that was a planet.
Uranus or Uranus or Uranus was too far and too dim to see
So, it was the first planet that had to be discovered.
*Inaudible* on Tuesday, March 13, 1781 founded Uranus using the very advanced, cutting edge technology the telescope!
Side note: I pronounce this planet as Uranus as Uranus.
Naming this planet, who btw was the Greek God of the sky, was first suggested by Johann Bone.
Now since Bone was German he pronounced it Uranus but the Greek pronunciation is Uranus
Side note: Side note here: Martin C was a big supporter of the name
And when he found the 92 element in 1789 he named Uranium.
Man that was some side note section!
Anyways, more on naming Uranus, here!
So after Herschel discovery, astronomers found that Uranus's orbit was weird and and off.
Something was pulling and tugging at it.
And that, is how they found Neptune!
Uranus's gravity pulled on Neptune
And Neptune's gravity pulled on Uranus's
Dude from technicality, why are you telling us this?
Well, this is exactly *inaudible* evidence for this new planet
The astronomers chose a handful of small celestial objects
In our solar system the Kuiper Belt to be more exact
And noticed that there were something strange about their orbits
They were essentially stretched out a bit differently
The likely explanation for the strange orbit is a planet affecting them
Hence Evidence for this new planet
Remember, they never actually founder saw this planet: they only ever found evidence for this planet
And it's quite likely that the weird orbits are because of another planet since there is a 1 in 14, 200 chance that the orbit are just a coincidence.
Breaking News! We have just received more statistics about this mysterious new ninth planet
Scientist have estimated that the size of this planet is about the size of Neptune and has a mass that is
10x the mass of Earth
Sciencetest has also predicted that this planet has an atmosphere thick of hydrogen and helium
If this planet does exist, it would be very, very dim
So dim that it would be quiet hard to observe it
Also this planet if it does exist would take between 10,000
20,000 Earth years to orbit the sun
My beauty shot right there
So this new planet is pretty exciting but, we will not know for certain that it's there until we have visual proof
Scientist right now are using one of the world's largest
telescopes, Subaru, in Hawaii to try to find this planet o try and find this planet
Astronomers are also trying to find more asteroids with the same orbit on the same side or the same orbit but flipped so it's on the opposite side of the solar system
Finding one or both of these can help us not only confirm the existence of this planet but where it is
Until, that day enjoy making people a little bit smarter at the water cooler at work
So, I'm painting my walls beige
Oh cool! Cool, nice, beige
So a new planet
Well, actually..
Thanks for watching, DFTBA, and explore on!
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