Astronomers claim to found new planet in out solar system.
Researchers claim to have discovered a new Earth-size planet in the Kuiper Belt, just behind Neptune and estimate it to be much larger than previous researchers predicted.
The Kuiper belt was studied by researchers. It was named after the Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who proposed its existence in 1951.
The research, published in the Astronomical Journal, indicated an object within the Kuiper Belt with “unusual” properties, such as gravitational influence over other objects, to suggest its planetary status.
The Kuiper belt is a doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects left over billions of years after the sun’s planets formed. The scientists were unable to reach it due to its remote location.
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Scientists wrote in their report: “We predict the existence of an Earth-like planet. It is plausible that a primordial planetary body could survive in the distant Kuiper Belt as a Kuiper Belt planet, as many such bodies existed in the early solar system.”
As Astronomers claim to found new planet in out solar system, previously, researchers suggested that there was an earth-like planet lurking at the end of our solar system; however, scientists have now proposed that there is a more massive body than previously anticipated, at a much closer distance from our planet.
If proven correct, the mass of this new planet would be 1.5 to 3 times that of Earth, at 500 times the distance between our planet and the sun.
Scientists predicted in July that Jupiter and Uranus-sized planets could be lurking on the outskirts of our solar system.
Scientists predict that the planet will be much farther away than planet X — those planets beyond Neptune.
According to the researchers, such a planet could be trapped in the Oort Cloud, a shell theorized by astronomers that marks the border of the sun’s and associated satellites’ gravitational pull.
According to experts, there may be more interstellar objects on the Solar System’s outskirts than previously thought.
Scientists assessed how solar systems tend to throw off large planets, as well as how a planetary system could catch one such planet, using complex computer simulations.
Astronomers said: “This is more likely to happen when such a planet drifts close to a star system’s outer edge Oort cloud.”
Researchers estimated that “one in every 200-3000 stars could host an Oort cloud planet.”
“If the Solar System’s dynamical instability happened after birth cluster dissolution, there is an about 7% chance that an ice giant was captured in the Sun’s Oort cloud,” scientists wrote in the study.
Experts hypothesized a ninth planet in 2020 research, much more centrally within our system before Jupiter pushed it.
Most people consider Pluto to be the ninth planet, but it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 when scientists realized how many planetary bodies similar to it exist — along with other TNOs.
