{"id":91571,"date":"2019-06-03T09:42:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/somethings-hiding-in-our-outer-solar-system-but-it-might-not-be-planet-nine"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T16:42:33","slug":"somethings-hiding-in-our-outer-solar-system-but-it-might-not-be-planet-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/somethings-hiding-in-our-outer-solar-system-but-it-might-not-be-planet-nine","title":{"rendered":"Something\u2019s Hiding in Our Outer Solar System, But It Might Not Be Planet Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ih22b1Qa8r0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, something wonky is happening. A few objects are orbiting differently from everything else, and we don\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n<p>A popular hypothesis is that an unseen object called Planet Nine could be messing with these orbits; astronomers are avidly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/12-new-moons-discovered-orbiting-jupiter-valetudo-collision-sheppard-et-al\">searching for<\/a> this planet. But earlier this year physicists came up with an alternative explanation they think is more plausible.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of one big object, the orbital wobblies could be caused by the combined gravitational force of a number of smaller <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kuiper_belt\">Kuiper Belt<\/a> or trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs). That\u2019s according to astrophysicists Antranik Sefilian of the University of Cambridge in the UK and Jihad Touma of the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/something-s-hiding-in-our-outer-solar-system-but-it-might-not-be-planet-nine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, something wonky is happening. A few objects are orbiting differently from everything else, and we don\u2019t know why. A popular hypothesis is that an unseen object called Planet Nine could be messing with these orbits; astronomers are avidly searching for this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91571","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}