Calm your conspiracy theories, latest glimpse reveals Planet Nine may just be a pipe dream

The mysterious, so-called Planet Nine, may not be a planet after all but just gravitational trickery, according to a new study. A team of researchers have published a new theory explaining why objects on the edge of the Solar System like Sedna - classified as a large minor planet - have such weird, giant circular orbits. Sedna …

[willi0000000]

it's Planet Ten, damnit!

[ haven't they seen Buckaroo Banzai? ]

[The Oncoming Scorn]

A film I tried to watch twice sober & drunk respectively & gave up.....

Obviously it's Rupert.

[MrDamage]

There's your problem. Half a tab of acid and a couple of reefers, and it made perfect sense to me.

[Fungus Bob]

Made perfect sense to me without drugs. Does that mean I'm trippin' all the time and don't even know it?

[Denarius]

dino killer rock

ITIRC that boffins had identified that rock as from a Juipiter Trojan group that broke up a large asteroid into smaller erratic chunks, at least one of which hit Earth

[GrumpyKiwi]

There is already a ninth planet and it's called Pluto. Screw you IAU.

[Long John Brass]

So the Mun is getting promoted?

Luna - Radius: 1,737 km

Pluto - Radius: 1,188 km

[I3N]

If that is your intent ...

... support naming that dwarf planet Laika!

[aka PUP for those Space Dandy fans]

[Anonymous Coward]

Planet 10 1803.

They should call it Planet 10 1803, given the anomalies/havoc it's causing to our solar system.

[I3N]

Re: Planet 10 1803.

The # 1803 now haunts my vivid dreams!

In the form of a 3 times b*strd of the prime 601.

Always with a 'welcome back' to 1709.

[wolfetone]

When my wife caught me in bed with her sister, I too told her that while it may look like that her sister is in bed with me, it's just gravitation trickery combobulating the light and deceiving her eyes.

Like me with this article, she too didn't buy the explanation.

[Rich 11]

It's a conspiracy!

Instead, there is no new, undiscovered planet. The strange orbits of TNOs are a result of what the researchers call “collective gravity”.

Pfft. This is an obvious cover-up. It's all being done with computers, nothing real. Show me the asteroids, I say. Show me the asteroids!

The astronomers have been watching Nibiru for decades and they know what's coming. Oh yes, they know. And now to hide the reality of our doom the conspirators are creating excuses that wouldn't fool even the most ignorant and stupid Planet X true believer.

[A-nonCoward]

Gee required quote

https://grisebouille.net/planete-9/

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Oumuamua originated in our solar system

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Eat your heart out, Copernicus - the Flat-Earthers were right!

There is no ninth planet, and certainly no tenth. And no intelligent life outside the solar system. I know this cos my mate told me last night.

Yuggoth is a small town outside Guildford, right?

[Afernie]

Re: Eat your heart out, Copernicus - the Flat-Earthers were right!

"I know this cos my mate told me last night."

Has your mate acquired a nasal, buzzing quality to his voice and refuses to be viewed in direct light? Lots of those summer colds going round...

[niio]

99% of scientists blame solar system warming

[Allaun Silverfox]

Mildly disappointing

It would have been an excellent opportunity to study so called "super earths" without needing to travel faster than light.

[John Geek]

at a 'astronomy on tap' beer-n-astrophysics event last month, a couple of the post-docs said pretty much exactly the same thing, that its turned out the orbital fluctuation measured were either erroneous or could be explained by existing phenomena.

[GrapeBunch]

at a 'astronomy on tap' beer-n-astrophysics event last month, a couple of the post-docs said pretty much exactly the same thing, that its turned out the orbital fluctuation measured were either erroneous or could be explained by existing phenomena.

Now is the Occam of our Discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of Sedna.

[Afernie]

"Scientists believe Planet Nine may have began as the core of a gas giant, "

The PGN is developing a facial tic...

[ravenviz]

whopping eight billion miles

Even that not-planet Pluto’s distance is usually quoted on Astronomical Units, I have no idea how far billions of miles is.

[Alphebatical]

Assuming I didn't screw my math up, that's about 9.26 kilosuns(or 292.6 Sagittarius A*s) away.