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I'm curious if this new discovery could eliminate the case for a Planet X(https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hypothetical-planet-x/in-depth/ https://solarsyst
by philistine 6y ago
I'm curious if this new discovery could eliminate the case for a Planet X(https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hypothetical-planet-x/in-depth/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/hypothetical-planet-x/i...).
I have no clue, I'm just curious since both try to explain the strange orbits of Kuiper Belt objects.
- sjs382 6y agoOr maybe there are other planets on this plane and either a) we didn't know to look there or b) it's really hard to look there, so we didn't. I hope someone who knows more about stuff like this can weigh in!
- hinkley 6y agoI saw something about this recently. One, there was selection bias, in that certain parts of the sky were easier to get observation time for discovering these parabolic orbits. As we've found more, the sample size has erased some of the anomalous properties. Two, the patterns that remain may be explained by the last star that crossed our path, perturbing the oort cloud, rather than a Planet X.