{"id":20963,"date":"2016-01-20T11:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T19:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/solar-system-may-host-9th-planet-a-distant-super-earth"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:55:18","slug":"solar-system-may-host-9th-planet-a-distant-super-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/solar-system-may-host-9th-planet-a-distant-super-earth","title":{"rendered":"Solar system may host 9th planet, a distant super-Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-system-may-host-9th-planet-a-distant-super-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 20 (UPI) \u2014 Astronomers at Caltech say they\u2019ve discovered significant evidence of a large, hidden body at the edge of the solar system \u2014 a 9th planet. The team of researchers have dubbed the body \u201cPlanet Nine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scientists haven\u2019t actually seen Planet Nine. No one has. But they\u2019ve inferred its presence by studying the orbits of several icy objects beyond Neptune. Scientists noticed the orbits of these Kuiper belt objects, or KBOs, feature similar anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>The orbital oddities suggested the objects were all being affected by a singular source, the gravity of a large object.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2016\/01\/20\/Distant-giant-New-evidence-of-a-9th-planet\/6621453306125\/?src=FB\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 20 (UPI) \u2014 Astronomers at Caltech say they\u2019ve discovered significant evidence of a large, hidden body at the edge of the solar system \u2014 a 9th planet. The team of researchers have dubbed the body \u201cPlanet Nine.\u201d The scientists haven\u2019t actually seen Planet Nine. No one has. But they\u2019ve inferred its presence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51146,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20963\/revisions\/51146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}