Potential new dwarf planet discovery challenges Planet Nine theory

A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the School of Natural Sciences In Princeton, New Jersey, may have found a new one the planets of the dwarfwhich potentially leads to more evidence of the theoretical superplacement.

In a statement, scientists have announced that they have found a trans-myspean object (TNO), codno named 2017of201, located next to the ice and desolate area of ​​Kuplier belt.

Tno, described as smaller planets that orbit the sun at a higher distance than Neptune, were found on the edge of our solar system.

Although there are many other TNOS in the solar system, what the 2017of201 makes special is its large size and extreme orbit.

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One of the team leaders, Sihao Cheng, along with Jiaxuan Li and Eritas Yang of Princeton University, revealed that discovery.

The team used advanced computer methods to identify a characteristic sample of a trajectory of an object in the sky.

“Aphelion object – the farthest point on the sun orbit – is more than 1600 times higher than Earth’s orbit,” Cheng said in a statement. “Meanwhile, his Perihelion – the nearest point of his orbit to the sun – 44.5 times the Earth’s orbit is, much like Pluto -O orbite.”

The 2017of201 takes about 25,000 years to have an orbit of the sun, for making Yang suggest that he “had to experience close encounters with a giant planet, which is why he was thrown into a wide orbit.”

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Cheng also added that there may have been more steps in his migration.

“It is possible that this facility was first thrown out in Oort Cloud, the farthest region in our solar system, in which the home of many comedies were sent back,” Cheng said.

This discovery has significant implications on the current understanding of our appearance External solar system.

According to NasCalifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech) Astronomers Constantin Batygin and Mike Brown in January 2016 announced a study that provided evidence for planet approximately 1.5 times higher than the country in the external solar system.

However, the existence of planets x or planet Nina is strictly theoretical because no astronomer has actually noticed such a planet.

Theory puts planet to approximately the same size Like NeptuneThe far past of Pluto somewhere near the belt of Kuiper, where it was in 2017.Of201.

If there is, it is aorized to have a mass up to 10 times more than Earth from a distance to 30 times away from Neptune to the sun.

It should be between 10,000 and 20,000 terrestrial years To make one full orbit around the sun.

However, the area outside the belt of Kuiper, where the item is located, was previously thought to be empty, but the discovery of the team suggests that this is not the case.

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Cheng said in the issue that 2017.of201 has only about 1% of its orbit visible to us.

“Although Progress in telescopes They have enabled us to explore the distant parts of the universe, there is still a lot to discover their own solar system, “Cheng said.

Nasa mentioned that if the planet Nina exists, it could help explain the unique orbit of some smaller objects in the remote Kuiper belt.

From now on, the planet of Nina remains everything but the theory, but the existence of this far world rests on gravitational patterns in the external solar system.

Nick Butler is a journalist for Fox News Digital. Do you have tips? Come to nick.butler@fox.com.