A strange ghost shoots matter in the Oort Cloud at the edge of the Solar System near Neptune, which may be the legendary 9th planet.
Research published in the Astronomical Journal indicates that the strange phenomena occurring with six “trans-Neptune” (ETNO) objects are evidence of the existence of a terrifying “ninth planet”.
The authors – two astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said that these ETNOs have giant elliptical orbits, the point closest to the Sun to more than 30 astronomical units (AU). 150 AU. 1 AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth.
Research on a series of simulations using data collected by NASA from ETNOs shows that the gravitational influence of a giant planet is at the origin of this strange orbit. To prove this, they expanded the study with the number of ETNOs up to 19. The second study has just been published online, ready to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The new work suggests that the Oort Cloud – a belt of mysterious objects at the edge of the solar system, occupying an area of between 2,000 and 200,000 AU – is not simply a collection of small, permanently suspended objects. Some of them moved inward and became ETNOs. It was the gravity of the 9th planet, which was still a ghost, could not be seen, that did this. Thus, the 9th planet itself must have an elongated elliptical orbit, so it is also difficult to observe directly.
According to Sciences Alert, however, the researchers are aiming for a closer goal: to study the composition of the ETNOs they suspect, through space missions deployed in Neptune’s outer space. If they can prove that some of the ETNOs are derived from the Oort Cloud, they can “shut down” the 9th planet.
