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Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   28 March 2024

Scientists may have just found a ninth planet in solar system

Scientists may have just found a ninth planet in solar system

YEREVAN, JANUARY 20, ARMENPRESS. Scientists believe they may have found a giant planet in our distant solar system, possibly the long-sought after Planet X. As “Armenpress” reports, Astronomic Journal wrote about the aforesaid.

It is believed to have a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the Sun on average than does Neptune. As a result, it would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the Sun.

 “This would be a real ninth planet,” CalTech researcher Mike Brown, who along with his colleague Konstantin Batygin, made the discovery which they are calling Planet Nine. “There have only been two true planets discovered since ancient times, and this would be a third. It’s a pretty substantial chunk of our solar system that’s still out there to be found, which is pretty exciting.”

Already gearing up for questions over whether it’s a true planet, Brown points out that it is 5,000 times the mass of Pluto and gravitationally dominates its neighborhood of the solar system – more so than any other known planet.

It’s “the most planet-y of the planets in the whole solar system,” said Brown, who is famous for helping demote Pluto to a dwarf planet.








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