Planet Nine Research Paper

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Another planet in our solar system is phenomenal geographic destroy. The name is Planet X; it’s more than 600 Kuiper Belt in orbit away. This large object could explain the orbits of 5 smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt. The theory of Planet X being real can explain the reasons of smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt having a gravitational pull to something larger, and theory of reason for the dinosaurs extinction with comets.
Planet X has a very high gravitational pull with smaller objects in the Kuiper Belt. Researchers have found, “...their work in the current issue of the Astronomical Journal and show how Planet Nine helps explain a number of mysterious features of the field of icy objects and debris beyond Neptune known as the Kuiper
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There are many theories, for an example, “whitmire and Matese's theory is that as Planet X orbits the sun, its tilted orbit slowly rotates and Planet X passes through the Kuiper belt of comets every 27 million years, knocking comets into the inner solar system. The dislodged comets not only smash into the Earth, they also disintegrate in the inner solar system as they get nearer to the sun, reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth,” (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena). Planet X coming close to earth would explain different unexplainable things. The dinosaurs are just one more theory to what happened to them. Planet X is closer to the size of Nepute which means about 15,000 years ago the Planet could have made comets and asteroids get off their path and head start to earth. However, this is still just a theory and has not been prove with evidence yet.
Planet X is so far away that, “the orbit of the inferred planet is similarly tilted, as well as stretched to distances that will explode previous conceptions of the solar system. Its closest approach to the sun is seven times farther than Neptune, or 200 astronomical units (AUs). (An AU is the distance between Earth and the sun, about 150 million kilometers.) And Planet X could roam as far as 600 to 1200 AU, well beyond the Kuiper belt, the region of small icy worlds that begins at Neptune’s edge about 30 AU,” (Eric