Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the University of Michigan, USA, have compiled a computer model of the location of the orbit of the ninth planet in the solar system, which has not yet been examined in telescopes.
It turns out that if the flight path of planet X were closer to the Sun or other objects, then it simply would not be able to stay inside our planetary system.
Note that scientists were able to calculate the trajectory of Planet X by the Monte Carlo method. It turned out that the probability of the ejection of the ninth planet outside the solar system does not exceed 50%.
This indicator indicates that the meeting of the ninth planet with other stars in the solar system is a very rare event.
The researchers also tried to figure out how Planet X appeared in its orbit. So, scientists suggested that the planet could not form far from the Sun. Then a version appeared that our star could attract a rogue planet, but the probability of this scenario does not exceed 2% and in this case the orbit of the ninth planet would be unstable.
Thus, planetary scientists concluded that Planet X could have been formed within the framework of the young solar system, but later, for unknown reasons, migrated to the outskirts of the cluster.