We’re Close to Finding a Ninth Planet in Solar System
All images: NASA, representative images
All images: NASA, representative images
The solar system has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. There are five officially recognised dwarf planets in our solar system: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. However, there could be a ninth planet which is the size of Neptune.
This Neptune-sized planet could be lurking out at the edges of the solar system. According to astronomy YouTuber Astrokobi, this planet orbits way out past Pluto.
This mysterious planet takes 10,000-20,000 years to complete one full orbit, and scientists could be quite close to finding it.
Recently, astronomers noticed several small objects out in the Kuiper Belt that appeared to be gravitationally affected by this planet. But the planet find it hard to detect as it is way too far from the Sun.
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