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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Astro where are you?!?!?!

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An object beyond the orbit of Neptune is acting oddly, violating the traditional rules of orbit, and scientists can't quite explain it yet. The trans-Neptunian object, or TNO, has been nicknamed Niku, a Chinese word for "rebellious." When you consider the fact that Niku orbits the sun in the opposite direction of almost everything else in the solar system, it's not hard to see where the name came from.

About 124 miles in diameter, Niku has risen above the plane of the solar system. It's still rising, in fact, on an orbital plane that is tilted to everything else. Michele Bannister, an astronomer at Queens University, summed up Niku's incredibly odd behavior in a tweet:

Niku is 160,000 times fainter than Neptune, but it has been observed twenty-two times by astronomers, according to a paper published to arXiv detailing the discovery. Authored by the astronomer Ying-Tung Chen of Academia Sinca in Taiwan and an international team of astronomers from Harvard to Hawaii to Germany, the paper describes a sense of utter confusion regarding the behavior of this little object.

Niku orbits on a plane that is tilted 110 degrees from the plane of the rest of the solar system. One theory is that a large object's gravity is influencing Niku, causing it to orbit at an angle to everything else as well as backward. Various theories, like a hidden Super Earth known as Planet Nine, an unseen dwarf star called Nemesis, or an unknown dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt are all "problematic" when trying to explain the orbit of Niku, according analyses detailed in the arXiv paper. (It was another group of objects with a highly inclined orbit that first led astronomers to propose the possibility of Planet Nine.)




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Is there another world lurking beyond Neptune? Strange orbit of new minor planet hints at mysterious object in the outer reaches of our solar system
Astronomers have discovered a distant minor planet they called Niku
It has an orbit that is tiled 110 degrees compared to the other planets
Scientists found a cluster of other minor planets with similar orbits
They may have been bumped there by a world still to be discovered
By RICHARD GRAY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 06:04 EST, 11 August 2016 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 11 August 2016


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Finally, see i told you just watch the planets you will soon notice it will affect our sun.

Getting drunk in the nasa center.