posted November 16, 2017 03:49 PM            

No, it’s not Pluto, but lurking in the dark outer reaches of our solar system, twenty times farther from the Sun than Neptune, is what NASA claims is a large ninth planet. On October 4, 2017, NASA issued a press release claiming that a massive, invisible planet best explains gravitational and orbital anomalies in the outer solar system. Planets don’t emit their own light, and because Planet Nine is so far away, it’s too dark to view directly. “There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine,” said Caltech planetary astrophysicist Konstantin Batygin, who along with Caltech astronomer Mike Brown, co-authored a 2016 study of Kuiper Belt objects. The Kuiper Belt contains trillions of leftover objects from the formation of our solar system, such as comets and dwarf planets like Pluto and Sedna (which are also known as “trans-Neptunian” objects). It’s shaped like a disc and lies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Read article at: http://secondnexus.com/science/nasa-9th-planet-super-earth/?utm_content=inf_10_1164_2&tse_id=INF_4fa8a610c58e11e7b926579f881108d6

posted November 16, 2017 04:25 PM            

Then at some point, maybe we'll have historical sciences, archaeology, anthropology, etc, that will better inform and guide the more technical, explorative sciences.