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The article states that's exactly what they're doing. They believe there's a planet nine based on its effect on other objects, and have a theoretical orbital ra
by badloginagain 8y ago
The article states that's exactly what they're doing. They believe there's a planet nine based on its effect on other objects, and have a theoretical orbital range modeled from those gravitational effects.
The problem is space is big, and space is dark, so its hard to find things that don't generate their own light.
- fhood 8y agoAh ok, I guess I just overestimated the level of precision they were working with.
- fpoling 8y agoOn the outskirts of Solar system things are far and move slowly. It prevents getting sufficient precision quickly.
- wongarsu 8y agoEven if you could predict the exact orbit, you still don't know where on that orbit it is right now. So even best case that's a lot of space to search.
- lamellama 8y agoIt seems like you could predict where it is based on the times the gravitational effects were recorded.