Planet Nine deemed super-Earth hidden somewhere in Solar System is being chased by astronomers
There is a possibility of a huge planet existing at the very edge of our Solar System. Astronomers have discovered a small object with an odd orbit in our Solar System.
This strange orbit of the small object can be defined by this large planet wandering at the edge of the Solar System.
This large planet or Planet Nine hypothesis, considering both evidence and consequences, has been explored in previous literatures from both dynamical and observational perspectives.
The new discovery confirms a prediction which was made by astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown. They were the first to theorise the existence of Planet Nine.
Apart from Planet Nine, much depends on the discovery and dynamical analysis of this small object or extreme Trans-Neptune Object (TNO) with a high orbital inclination.
When researchers came across the small object having a strange orbit, they learnt the possible presence of the huge planet which maybe influencing the strange orbit of the TNO.
According to the astronomers, the ninth planet may have been orbiting Sun at a great distance for a few years now. When astronomers started learning more about it in 2016, they also were trying to study many small and distant objects in our solar system all orbiting further away from Pluto.
The small objects all had one thing in common; they were orbiting Sun at an easily distinguishable angle from all the planets in our solar system.
When astronomers started to analyse the observations made, they suggested that the gravitational influence of another planet is changing the orbits of these distant objects.