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Planet 9 May be Smoking Gun For 2 Stars in Our Solary System
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Planet 9 May be Smoking Gun For 2 Stars in Our Solary System

EPOCH Sep 2, 2020 · 1 MIN · SPACE

Topic: Planet Nine

Planet Nine JPL

Interesting work done by Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb is showing that the existence of Planet 9 is some of our strongest physical evidence for our solar system having 2 stars early in it’s development.

We have not actually seen Planet 9 yet. But some gravitational feature’s of our solar system seem to imply it’s existence.

In a fun twist more evidence of Planet 9 could be the smoking gun we need for a duo star development history for our own solar system.

NASA JPL Orbit Reference Image

For reference here’s the orbit of “Sedna” which is a crazy cold, very far out, elongated orbiting object. Sedna’s strange orbit is one of the primary pieces of evidence that a large ninth planet must exist to have put it in such an orbit.