Saturday, April 9, 2016

No, Planet Nine Won't Kill Us All

I wanted to post this article quickly just in case yesterday's post was causing anxiety to anyone.  Turns out planet nine isn't going to collide with earth and kill everyone!!

So if you already went out and bought a new sports car on payments, believing we only had a few months left....you may have jumped the gun.

There is so much wrong here. First of all, the Post's tweet, and the new 30-second video, describe Planet Nine as an officially discovered and confirmed world. This is not the case; astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, both of whom are based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, inferred the planet's existence based on the strange orbits of a half dozen small objects in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

Astronomers are now actively hunting for Planet Nine — which Batygin and Brown think is about 10 times more massive than Earth, and orbits about 600 times farther from the sun than our planet does — but to date, it has not been detected.
Second, we have nothing to fear from Planet Nine, even if it does exist, according to Brown.

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