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Scientists have made an important discovery regarding the ninth planet of the solar system

For several years, scientists have reported new discoveries confirming the discovery of the planet. potential existence of the solar system. Planet X, which is also "baptized" by the ninth planet. However, scientists from the University of Cambridge and the American University of Beirut have stated that the phenomenon that would have confirmed the existence of Planet X can be explained without its influence.

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It is assumed that the existence of the ninth planet is proven Unusual orbits of some objects located in remote areas of the solar system. However, according to the authors of the study published in the latest issue of the Astronomical Journal, these orbits can be explained by the mutual gravitational interaction of small objects located on the outside. of Neptune

. The novelty of the theory proposed by scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Beirut is that explains the strange orbits of cosmic bodies, confirming the existence of only eight planets of the solar system.

Beyond the orbit of Neptune is a Kuiper Belt, made up of small space objects, remnants of the Solarly formation process. system. Neptune and other large planets have an effect on these objects called transneptunum (TNO).

Since 2003, scientists have begun to discover NWTs that are distinctly different from others. There are currently about thirty TNOs, which are distinguished from other transneptuary objects by their common orientation and similar in space. This is not explained by the well-known configuration of the solar system. Some experts then began to suspect that the ninth unknown planet had an impact on these objects.

"We wanted to know if there was another less speculative explanation for the unusual orbits of these NWTs." Instead of creating hypotheses on the planet X, trying to find them, determining the orbit and evolutionary history, we took into account the mutual gravitational interactions of transneptonal objects, "said Antrnick Sefilian, a postgraduate student at Cambridge University. In collaboration with Professor Yehad Tolum of the American University of Beirut, he created a model taking into account all the dynamics of the NWT under the influence of the outer planets of the solar system and the rest of the belt. Kuiper. It has turned out that this model allows us to explain the unusual orbits of some TNOs.

The Sefilian and Toum models contain an important additional observation. It is possible that the mass of objects in the Kuiper belt is 10 times greater than that of the Earth. Preliminary estimates of the weight of the Kuiper belt indicate that it represents about 1/10 of the mass of the Earth.

However, Sephillian and Thom do not rule out that it's about both phenomena at the same time: the massive Kuiper belt and the X planet.

Remember that observers Moon's eclipse of January 21, for the first time in history, had recorded a meteorite hit on the surface of the satellite during such an event.

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