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The paper presenting the evidence for Planet Nine was published on 20 January 2016 in the Astronomical Journal, and written by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown.

We put the finishing touches on the paper at the Kona Brewing Company after a night at the Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea searching for Planet Nine.



 Konstantin is an Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech.

Mike is the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech.

40 comments:


  1. What a frabjous day! This is so very thrilling.

    Oh - you might like to know that Konstantin has lost an n in the above caption.

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    1. Good! But you've left it out in the Long and Winding History of Planet X... (I've left a comment there.)

      I know I'm a nit-picker, but it shows that I read what you write very, very closely, doesn't it? ;-)

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    2. Well I had to bet the end from somewhere, didn't I?

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    3. I should never comment via phone. That was
      "Well, I had to get the e from somewhere, didn't I?"

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  3. Congratulations guys, fantastic research. The science is wonderful but the human story is just as compelling. What an exciting moment it must have been when the light bulb of discovery lit up with the realization that there really may be a giant planet in the far reaches of the solar system. And Dr. Brown, your not so subtle comment that "this is real planet" is sure to add fuel to the fire of the Brown vs. Stern feud, thus making the search for Planet Nine all the more fascinating. Here's hoping you find Planet Nine quickly!

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  4. Serious question - Could Planet 9 be a small Black Hole?

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    1. No. If it were, it have the mass of a sun and therefore the gravitational effect of a sun. Current calculations only allow for a Neptune sized object. Plus we'd probably notice a gravitational lensing effect on the stars in the general direction where we think the object is. Unless I missed something, we haven't noticed anything like that.

      Out of curiosity, why would you think it's a black hole?

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    2. brawo....all in people hands this time no party for me ,,,,the last planet .. they call dwarf planet but most important,,,,,guardian of solar system...aquarius pluto gonna move sun and open black hole sun gonna fly around saturn turn back time to begining our solar system.....when rich t - 0 1 ...blast gonna create new solar system ....

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  5. So it sounds like I would be wasting my time pointing my 155edfs in the general direction of planet 9!

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  6. On Inside Science on bbc radio 4 you welcomed name submissions, so here's mine: Juno, the co-head goddess with Jupiter. We have a paucity of female-named solar system objects (sane ones anyway) and Juno has several reasons to recommend hers. She's large, distant, and cold despite her importance (because of her importance?) (like the script of Alien opens: 'The stars shine cold and remote like the love of God.' but I digress) It's easy to spell and remember--it even rhymes with Pluto and should therefore help mollify his mourners. Oh, and, apart from 'Earth' I say we DO have a nomenclature system for planets; they're all members or the Greco-Roman pantheon.

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  7. I am working with folks in Puerto Rico, including some Arecibo people, to put together a technical workshop and conference on Data Science, with space as one of the threads. This year's thrust will be on machine learning in several disciplines. (As of today, the day after Maria, there is some question ... but we hope). I believe the computational work your group is doing would be a great addition to the conference. The date has not been set yet but late February if early March is the present plan. Would anyone in your team be able to participate as a speaker, or even run a Workshop? We already have workshops planned on learning TensorFlow and assembling a high performance entry-level machine learning platform from a box of parts, installing and maintaining a machine learning system and running experiments.

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  8. Mike and Konstantin,

    When is the 2018 update on your progress going to be released?

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  9. 1)Is woobling of the Sun concerned, maybe it could confirm or reject area of space for search?
    2)If there are two planets, orbits of researched small objects shown on chart can show space on the sky where unknown planets didn't clean from smaller objects and so far calculation could show only sum of those two planets influence...
    3)Maybe orbits of discovered objects are result of close passing star (Scholz star or other) in the past?

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  10. Planet X collided with Uranus before settling in a wider semi major orbit of 500 AUs as shown below:-
    https://interestingengineering.com/a-mysterious-object-twice-the-size-of-earth-is-what-caused-uranus-lopsided-orbit

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  11. Perhaps the answer to my question is contained somewhere within these pages, but I wish it was addressed right up front: How is it that the pertinent Kuiper Belt objects have been so readily detected and studied while the presumably much larger suspected planet defies observation?

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    1. cuz they are waaaaay closer, an becuz there are soooo many of them.

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  12. could New Horizons be used to take some pictures in the direction of the Hypothetical Planet Nine ?

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