Welcome to my blog "Mystery of Galaxy". Today our topic is on a mysterious planet of our solar system "Planet 9".Astronomers believe there is a giant planet lurking in the outer solar system, and we're going to learn more about it starting right now. In 2016, astronomers Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin at Caltech announced evidence of a giant planet in the distant outer solar system. In this article, we'd like to tell you about how they arrived at this claim and where we stand on the hunt for Planet 9. Now claims of new planets in our solar system are nothing new. In 1906, Percival Lowell believed that there was a giant planet that was disturbing the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Lowell calculated that the planet must be at least the mass of Jupiter but perhaps even larger. He spent the last decade of his life searching for Planet X to no avail. When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930. People thought that Lowell's giant planet was found. B...
The blog is about the Mysteries of Space like History of our solar system, Black holes, Supernovae and etc.
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