While hunting for planet x, Astronomers have just discovered a new planet, and they’ve
nicknamed it, the goblin.
The goblin is at the edge of the solar system, and scientists think that it could help us
discover planet X, which at this time is a theoretical planet that is said to be lurking
somewhere beyond pluto.
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Some astronomers, including ones at nasa, believe that there’s a mysterious planet
that lurks at the edge of our solar system whos gravity is throwing off the orbit of
other objects.
They have dubbed this planet, planet 9, or planet X.
The planet x that is theorized by scientists is different from the conspiracy theory planet
x or nibiru that is apparently supposed to crash into our earth and cause the apocalypse.
Not that planet x.
Some scientists are so dead set on the idea that planet x actually exists, that they are
searching for it using some of the most powerful telescopes on earth.
While hunting for planet X using the Japanese Subaru Telescope in hawaii, researchers with
Northern Arizona University, The Carnegie Institution of Science, and the University
of Hawaii have found a small dwarf planet that takes 40 thousand earth years to orbit
the sun.
Because of how slow it’s orbit is, it took a long time for researchers to observe it
understand it.
Also because Its really really far out, like way out in the boonies.
Like you know when you go to your friends new house but the only reason why they bought
a new house is because they bought it in the boonies and its cheaper?
Yeah its even further than that.
This planet is more than 2000 times the distance between the earth and the sun, and its 2 and
a half times farther from the sun than pluto.
According to scott sheppard, an astronomer with the cargenie instution of science, this
discovery has made them 90 percent sure that planet x actually exists.
How does this planet make them so sure?
Well this dawf planet.
Its itty bitty, and its been nicknamed the goblin because scientists actually discovered
it around Halloween of 2015, but they have just formally announced it.
I actually love that its called the goblin and that it lurks at the edge of our solar
systems because goblins totally lurk.
Do goblins do anything other than lurk?
I don’t know but they are usually lurking like under bridges and shit and apparently
also at the edge of the solar system.
So The goblin is in the oort cloud, which is a bubble of objects filled with icy bodies.
The oort cloud is said to be the birth place of many comets.
According to Scott Sheppard, the goblin has the largest orbit out of all the extremely
distant objects that stay well beyond pluto.
Given its orbit, the goblin never comes close enough to the giant planets in our solar system
to be affected by their gravitational influence.
Sheppard and his team have found several objects like the goblin in our solar system over the
last 6 years.
The first one was found in 2012.
Because these planets are isolated, he said they can be used as probes to find out what’s
happening at the edge of our solar system.
The goblin has a very strange orbit, it travels very slowly along an elongated orbit.
So if the goblin is so far away that its unaffected by gas giants in our solar system, what is
contributing to its strange orbit?
Why, planet x my friends, planet x.
The goblin as well as other planets discovered by scott sheppards team are being pushed into
a similar orbit by a force, a force that we have not discovered yet.
The researchers say that based on simulations using the basic parameters they have for planet
x, the goblin acts like it is shepherded by planet x but it never gets close to it.
this is similar to why pluto never gets too close to Neptune even though their orbits
cross.
Its important to know that these outer objects have not proved that planet x exists, but
they are evidence that there could be something big at the edge of our solar system that we
haven’t discovered yet.
Anyways guys, super interesting stuff, but do you know what time it is?
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Edit.
Just like to say wish you the best of luck and always follow your passions.
Ohhh what a nice surprise.
I was gonan reply with something like DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO but that was very nice
thank you.
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