so the ninth planet may existafter all, how do those who dismissed this as foly feel now?

So the ninth planet may existafter all, how do those who dismissed this as foly feel now?

Seriously? It has not yet been proven that Sol is not a binary star, and somewhere out in space there is a very dim red dwarf or possibly a brown dwarf circling us. That theory was put forward in 1984 and still stands. It would account for about the same things a Neptune sized planet would.

A brown dwarf is a star or ultra huge planet that doesn't have quite enough mass for fusion to start.

I previously dismissed "Planet X" that was speculated to orbit our sun, some even saying perpendicularly. That was because it was all hearsay and no real evidence was brought forth. And this is most likely another celestial body in question.

Everything so far is indirect evidence of a ninth planet. I am very excited about the coming results in the future, I hope it comes true. To witness history. But for all YOU know, it could be a massive piece of poop floating in space exerting a gravitational pull, as of now. Jumping on the band wagon immediately claiming a new planet without doing an ounce of research is stupid. That kind of abrupt judgement mentality is what holds advancements in all fields back. It deviates attention from the facts.

You're taking a lot for granted. First, the possibility of other planets far out in the Solar System has never been discounted by science. Second, a ninth planet, even if it really exists, does *not* mean the Nibiru legends are true. There's every chance this planet is never visible to the naked eye from Earth, in which case those myths remain nonsense. And even those few who did deny it (that's akin to religious faith, and not science) are still waiting for this supposed planet to be actually confirmed and discovered, and not merely hypothesized. It's folly to assume it truly exists before then.

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You mean like the discovery of the eight planet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgXQffVgZRs#t=2m25...

Because I'm still waiting for Neptune to come and destroy the Earth.

You owe us a destroyed Earth on 2012. So how do you feel now?

Snark comments aside, I'm still waiting for confirmation. As with previous discoveries, some are confirmed and some are realized to be artifacts. I don't see an impediment that the solar system has a ninth, a tenth, and even several dozens of massive objects orbiting the Sun at great distances.

The difficulty here is that there are people on the Internet (such as yourself) that are quite keen to yell out "OMG ITS GOING TO DESTROY THE WOARLD!!"

It gets quite annoying and troublesome after a while. Patience to explain about distances and orbits runs out. Patience to dig up references about things we're not so familiar about, such as History, also runs out. The first two or three times you kinda have the patience to go through it again. By the twentieth time you're kinda annoyed. By the one hundreth one basically realizes that it's an uphill climb with no ending in sight except for the apocalypse date to pass by and wait for the next apocalypse date to be made up by the Internet...

So every time a new possibility for discovery comes up, and people such as yourself come out to spread fear and discord under the guise of "THE EVIL SCIENTISTS THEYRE HIDING THA TROOTH FROM YOU" -- well, that's to be expected that the natural reaction is "Oh here we go AGAIN!"

So kid, tell us know. It looks like you found a planet that the actual astronomers haven't found yet. Tell us know where it is and when it's going to destroy us.

And by the way, why only one planet? Why not two or three?

Well, ..., First, no one that I've seen has dismissed the possibilities of planets in the outer solar system. One of the purposes of the new horizons mission is to study Kuiper Belt Objects (KBO's) not easily detectable from earth based observations. Could other planets exist in the outer solar system? yes, its possible. Second, a 9th planet hasn't been officially discovered. The probability that one could exist has be uncovered by a math mathematical model. We don't really know if one exists at all until it is verified with visual observations.

Finally, the existence of Nibiru was and remains an absolute hoax and I might add that I was absolutly correct in my predictions that it would not appear because it did not exist. I made these predictions over 2010, 2011, and 2012 (see my prior posts to Yahoo Answers) and it in fact did not appear nor will it ever appear because it simply does not exist.

Read the article below.

The 9th planet has nothing to do with the nonsense of Nibiru or Planet X somehow being on the other side of the sun and the same distance out as Earth or being about to hit Earth.

You know there's nine planets in the solar system.

Some are so darn small, you mighta missed 'em,

Like my favorite one... that'd be Pluto! It's so small and far away,

gonna put it in my pocket for a rainy day, oh yes oh yes..

Welll there's Mercury it's too hot, and is Venus cold, it's just so not.

And some people say Mars has got Martians, and I guess they gotta point, but Earth's got weird people too.

And you know there's nine planets in the solar system.

Some are so darn small, you mighta missed 'em,

Like my favorite one... that'd be Pluto! It's so small and far away,

gonna put it in my pocket for a rainy day, oh yes oh yes..

Welll Jupiter's like a big ball, and Saturn's just not small at all,

and Neptune and Uranus can hardly detain us,

when Pluto's just right down the hall....

They have NOT found a new planet! They think they see evidence of a planet/object perturbing other smaller objects, THAT"S IT!

But the ones that poopooed the idea are taking a second look. They may regret their 'folly' who knows.

Does anyone actually read the news articles on this. or do they just jerk to the headlines or what they are told on TV on the morning news?

There is no confirmed discovery. It's only circumstantial evidence that MIGHT explain the behavior of several larger objects in the Kuiper Belt.

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who would that be? only a fool would say we know all there is to know about our solar system. of course, this *is* yahoo answers, so all bets are off.

note that the researchers haven't actually found anything. they have a hypothesis for observed anomalies in the orbits of certain objects in the outer solar system. this approach has panned out in the past (neptune), but has failed too (vulcan). not that failure is inherently bad: vulcan's non-existence was explained by a new theory of how the universe worked, general relativity.