Will another planet be added to the list of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in our Solar System? Credit: NASA
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trans-Neptunian objects: the extreme ones (ETNOs) tagged posts
Planet Nine Hypothesis supported by new evidence
July 13, 2017,
Astronomy/Space
Last year, the existence of an unknown planet in our Solar system was announced. However, this hypothesis was subsequently called into question as biases in the observational data were detected. Now Spanish astronomers have used a novel technique to analyse the orbits of the so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects and, once again, they point out that there is something perturbing them: a planet located at a distance between 300 to 400 times the Earth-Sun separation.
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Scientists continue to argue about the existence of a ninth planet within our Solar System...
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