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Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 3:52 PM

As you may or may not know, earlier this year some Caltech Researchers predicted the existence of a 9th planet with a very eccentric orbit.

https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523

They asked for the public's help in finding the planet. So far, nothing. Though there was some news today that there is more indirect evidence for the existence of Planet 9.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/month-planet/

So where is it? I figured I'd ask CR4. If your answer is "Where ever Pluto is", I'm with you, but then I will have the immediate followup question "Where is Planet 10?"

Here is a blog to help you get started finding it:

http://klotza.blogspot.com/2016/03/where-might-planet-nine-be-hiding.html
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Re: Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 4:04 PM

Right inside Planet 7 (it's hollow in there).

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Re: Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 5:00 PM

Unfortunately, it is obscured by Cloud 9.
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Re: Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 5:03 PM

That's rather nebulous, is it not?

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03/31/2016 5:07 PM

No, really. I'm being Cirrus here.
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Re: Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 7:25 PM

...play spooky music here.....

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03/31/2016 7:47 PM

No, this is Planet 42.
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Re: Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 8:43 PM

Ask these guys.

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Re: Where is Planet 9?

03/31/2016 10:27 PM

Orbiting Donald Trump's head??
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03/31/2016 11:04 PM

She came from planet Claire.

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Re: Where is Planet 9?

04/01/2016 8:58 AM

As far as I am concerned, I consider the ninth planet to be in a elliptical orbit about the Sun at a mean distance of 39.98AU, with a minimum of 29.73AU, and a maximum of 49.33AU .Don't tell me differently this many years into my life.

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Re: Where is Planet 9?

04/01/2016 1:35 PM

Between planet 8 and planet 10...duh!

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Re: Where is Planet 9?

04/03/2016 8:02 PM

I would have thought that if their calculations predicted a 9th planet they would also predict where to look......
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Re: Where is Planet 9?

04/04/2016 7:35 AM

Unfortunately their predictions indicate it could be a rather broad region of sky. The planet being so far away it's a bit of a needle in a haystack...if it exists.
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Re: Where is Planet 9?

04/28/2016 7:31 AM

You can get the answer from this blog

http://www.findplanetnine.com/p/blog-page.html
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