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Subject Our Solar System Just Got Weirder: Bizarre New Object Beyond Neptune With Strange Orbit Hints At Undiscovered Object In Outer Solar System
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Original Message "Scientists have found a mysterious object orbiting just beyond Neptune, and it's breaking all the rules.

Astronomers have nicknamed it "Niku," which means rebellious in Chinese, because of the object's reckless behavior.

The object is about 160,000 times fainter than Neptune, suggesting that it could be less than 120 miles in diameter. That makes the icy celestial body a minor planet, which means it's smaller than a planet but not quite a comet.

Niku orbits the solar system at a bizarre angle: a plane tilted 110 degrees to the flat plane of the solar system. This flat plane of the solar system - a disk in which planets move around the sun - is a defining quality of a planetary system.

But Niku, already moving above the plane, travels a little further upward every day.

And unlike the other law-abiding objects in the solar system, Niku travels against the flow of the bulk of the solar system, taking a wild backwards swing around the sun.

Objects that don't move within the plane of the solar system or spin in the opposite direction must have been shoved off course by something else or tugged by the gravity of another object."

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