Planet 9 may be closer and easier to find than thought

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Our planetary system still has some mysteries unanswered, but in general, there aren’t many of them left. One of the most puzzling questions is the existence of a cold planet, large in sizes, beyond the orbit of Neptune. The belief in its existence stem from the behavior of objects whose orbits are close together. They behave in a way that would imply the presence of one such planet. Skeptics claim that these hints are nothing but the holes in observational data.

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New calculations suggest that Planet 9 orbits the Sun much more often than previously thought, and thus will be easier to spot.
Some teams of researchers have looked at data and concluded that Planet 9 doesn’t actually exist.
The Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile is likely to provide the best opportunity for observing Planet 9.

“The invisible planet is predicted to exist based on the apparent influence of gravity on a group of small objects with strange, clustered orbits.”

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