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A Planet Four Times the Size of Earth Found Far Beyond Neptune – Is NASA Hiding Planet-X?
The evidence for ‘Planet X’ – the mysterious hypothesised planet on the edge of our solar system – has taken a new turn thanks to the mathematics of a noted astronomer.
Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, says the irregular orbits of small icy bodies beyond Neptune imply that a planet four times the size of Earth is swirling around our sun in the fringes of the solar system.
Gomes measured the orbits of 92 Kuiper belt objects – small bodies and dwarf planets – and said that six objects appeared to be tugged off-course compared to their expected orbits
Speaking at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society Rodney Gomes presented complex calculations and computer models, indicating the existence of this world as a genuine possibility.
He told astronomers that the most likely reason for the irregular orbits was a ‘planetary-mass solar companion’ – a distant body of planet size that is powerful enough to move the Kuiper belt objects.
He suggested the planet would be four times bigger than Earth – around the size of Nepture and would be 140 billion miles from the sun, or about 1,500 times further than the Earth http://tinyurl.com/7jtngcc
Planetary scientist Rodney Gomes of the National Observatory in Rio de Janeiro suggested that Planet X might be “extrasolar.” Many of the sun’s siblings have their own planets, and it’s possible that these stars stole planets from each others’ gravitational pull.
“We haven’t explored all of the solar system yet,” Sheppard said, “so people always want to believe that there’s something else out there. http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/388704/scitech/science/undiscovered-planet-may-be-lurking-beyond-neptune
The New Horizons Mission to Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and Beyond
1905: Percival Lowell starts search for ‘Planet X’, based on erroneous measurements of Uranus, Neptune positions http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~throop/files/OTSP_NH.pdf
A distant planet may lurk far beyond Neptune https://www.sciencenews.org/article/distant-planet-may-lurk-far-beyond-neptune
Rodney Gomes not the first to suggest Planet X is behind Neptune http://www.digitaljournal.com/blog/16655
Planets beyond Neptune http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune
NEW HORIZONS – NASA’s Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php
AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY http://aas.org/
Image credit: NASAI
New Planet Found in Our Solar System? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120511-new-planet-solar-system-kuiper-belt-space-science/
Mysterious Planet Discovered Lurking At The Edge Of Our Solar System: Has Nemesis Been Found? http://www.messagetoeagle.com/nemesis.php#.VHMOmIusXm4
Planet X? New Evidence of an Unseen Planet at Solar System’s Edge http://www.space.com/15822-planet-edge-solar-system.html
