{"id":78878,"date":"2018-05-18T07:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-newly-discovered-solar-system-object-hints-at-hidden-planet-nine"},"modified":"2018-05-18T07:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T14:02:21","slug":"a-newly-discovered-solar-system-object-hints-at-hidden-planet-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/a-newly-discovered-solar-system-object-hints-at-hidden-planet-nine","title":{"rendered":"A Newly Discovered Solar System Object Hints at Hidden Planet Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-newly-discovered-solar-system-object-hints-at-hidden-planet-nine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers found a strange dwarf world that provides even more evidence that a giant planet is lurking at the edge of our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>Getty Images Mark Garlick\/Science Photo Library.<\/p>\n<p>There might be a large planet lurking somewhere at the very edge of our solar system, and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/news\/a19048\/will-we-find-planet-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">astronomers are hunting for it<\/a>. While they have yet to find direct evidence of the planet, a recent discovery provides yet more indirect evidence that the planet does, in fact, exist. Astronomers <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1805.05355\" target=\"_blank\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">found a small solar system body with a strange orbit<\/a> that they say can only be explained by another, bigger planet hiding out there somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/solar-system\/a20736184\/new-solar-system-object-planet-nine\/\">https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/space\/solar-system\/a2073618...anet-nine\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers found a strange dwarf world that provides even more evidence that a giant planet is lurking at the edge of our solar system. Getty Images Mark Garlick\/Science Photo Library. There might be a large planet lurking somewhere at the very edge of our solar system, and astronomers are hunting for it. While they have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78878","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}