Calculations have shown that its chances of being in the proposed orbit are small
New theoretical calculations carried out by specialists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have shown that the recently discovered ninth planet of the solar system may not actually exist. If this assumption is confirmed, it will deprive the meaning of many recently put forward theories regarding the origin of the mysterious Planet X and its impact on other objects in the solar system.
Experts have analyzed the likelihood of various scenarios for the emergence of a mysterious planet orbiting the sun, but located at a great distance from it. As it turned out, even if a planet existed in a similar orbit in the past, the probability that it would not have been thrown out of the solar system during its existence is only about 10 percent.
Scientists also considered a more daring theory regarding "Planet X", implying that this cosmic body in the past was an exoplanet: it formed near another star, and only entered the orbit of the Sun. However, the likelihood that the planet was "stolen" by the gravity of the Sun from another star, and that it "wandered" through space on its own until it came across the Sun, is no more than two percent. Thus, it is most likely that this planet simply does not exist, experts say.
Astrophysicists Michael Brown and Konstantin Batygin announced at the beginning of this year that a ninth planet could exist in the solar system. Further studies carried out by specialists from various universities showed that such a planet should be about 10 times heavier than the Earth and have a diameter 2-4 times larger than our planet. Various astrophysicists have estimated the period of revolution of "Planet X" around the Sun at 15-20 thousand years. It was assumed that the search for a mysterious space body should be in the constellation Cetus.
From the moment, as the possibility of the existence of the ninth planet was first announced, it has already turned out to be devoted to many quite fantastic theories. In particular, about a month ago, Daniel Whitmeier from the University of Louisiana suggested that "Planet X" sends comets from the Kuiper belt to Earth every 27 million years, which has already caused mass extinctions on the planet in the past, and in the future may threaten humanity. And recently a group of scientists from Spain and Great Britain went even further and suggested that the ninth planet contributes to the destruction of the entire solar system, throwing out rather large cosmic bodies from it with its gravity.
Dmitry Istrov