{"id":2722,"date":"2025-05-30T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/planet-nine-may-exist\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:09:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:09:32","slug":"planet-nine-may-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/30\/planet-nine-may-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Nine may exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-05-30 11:09:31<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Planet Nine may exist<BR><br \/>\nScientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have shared new research that supports the idea of the large distant planet that may lurk at the edge of the solar system.<BR><br \/>\nPlanet Nine \u2013 which is thought to be five to ten times the mass of Earth &#8211; is a theoretical planet first suggested in 2016 by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology.<BR><br \/>\nAccording to their study of complex simulations, there is up to a 40 per cent chance of its existence. <BR><br \/>\nIf Planet Nine is real, it could help explain the unusual orbits of objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region beyond Neptune.<BR><br \/>\nThe team hopes the planet \u2013 which would orbit the sun on a distant path far beyond Pluto &#8211; can be detected by the largest camera built inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, located on the El Penon peak of Cerro Pachon mountain in Chile.<BR><br \/>\nDoctor Andre Izidoro, the study\u2019s lead author, is quoted by MailOnline: \u201cWhen giant planets scatter each other through gravitational interactions, some are flung far away from their star. <BR><br \/>\n\u201cIf the timing and surrounding environment are just right, those planets don&#8217;t get ejected, but rather they get trapped in extremely wide orbits.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cOur simulations show that if the early solar system underwent two specific instability phases &#8211; the growth of Uranus and Neptune and the later scattering among gas giants, there is up to a 40 per cent chance that a Planet Nine-like object could have been trapped during that time.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-05-30 11:09:31 Planet Nine may exist Scientists at Rice University in Houston, Texas, have shared new research that supports the idea of the large distant planet that may lurk at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}