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.
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.
ReplyDeleteWhat a frabjous day! This is so very thrilling.
Oh - you might like to know that Konstantin has lost an n in the above caption.
the "n" has re-appeared!
ReplyDeleteGood! But you've left it out in the Long and Winding History of Planet X... (I've left a comment there.)
DeleteI 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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I'm looking forward to reading your paper.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations 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!
ReplyDeleteSerious question - Could Planet 9 be a small Black Hole?
ReplyDeleteNo. 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.
DeleteOut of curiosity, why would you think it's a black hole?
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DeleteSo it sounds like I would be wasting my time pointing my 155edfs in the general direction of planet 9!
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ReplyDeleteWhen is the 2018 update on your progress going to be released?
1)Is woobling of the Sun concerned, maybe it could confirm or reject area of space for search?
ReplyDelete2)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?
Planet X collided with Uranus before settling in a wider semi major orbit of 500 AUs as shown below:-
ReplyDeletehttps://interestingengineering.com/a-mysterious-object-twice-the-size-of-earth-is-what-caused-uranus-lopsided-orbit
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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Deletecould New Horizons be used to take some pictures in the direction of the Hypothetical Planet Nine ?
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