{"id":24092,"date":"2016-03-29T19:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T02:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/scientists-just-found-more-evidence-that-planet-nine-exists-in-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:21","slug":"scientists-just-found-more-evidence-that-planet-nine-exists-in-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/scientists-just-found-more-evidence-that-planet-nine-exists-in-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just found more evidence that Planet Nine exists in our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-found-more-evidence-that-planet-nine-exists-in-our-solar-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/astronomers-have-found-evidence-of-huge-ninth-planet-on-the-edge-of-the-solar-system\">Back in January<\/a>, the astronomer who led the charge to have Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status announced that he\u2019d just found evidence that a huge, icy planet could be lurking on the edge of the Solar System, just past Neptune.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech University, estimated that the hypothetical \u2018Planet Nine\u2019 appears to be circling the Sun on a super-elongated orbit that takes an incredible 10,000 to 20,000 years to complete. And now, thanks to a newly detected Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) that\u2019s acting really strange, Brown says the case for Planet Nine just got a whole lot stronger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey Planet Nine fans, a new eccentric KBO was discovered. And it is exactly where Planet Nine says it should be,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/plutokiller\/status\/713111594197061632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Brown tweeted over the weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-found-more-evidence-that-planet-nine-exists-in-our-solar-system\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-found-more-evide...lar-system<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, the astronomer who led the charge to have Pluto demoted to dwarf planet status announced that he\u2019d just found evidence that a huge, icy planet could be lurking on the edge of the Solar System, just past Neptune. Mike Brown, a planetary astronomer at Caltech University, estimated that the hypothetical \u2018Planet Nine\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24092","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67873,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24092\/revisions\/67873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}