In this blog, we are going to see about a new planet discovered in 2022 which is more interesting with the historic facts and some fantastic knowledge.
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Introduction
In our solar system, there is some mysterious and unseen object which affects all the planet’s orbits around their system but till now no one has seen that not even with the help of recent technologies or advanced telescopes, but the object exists in our solar system is recognized by many scientists, we have only felt the effect’s but not even saw that object. But they have named the mysterious planet X. But friends if you think that I’m talking about the planet Pluto planet Eris then I think you are wrong, let me explain to you that I am not talking about any dwarf planets or any celestial object from the Kuiper belt.
Planet X
Here I’m talking about a hypothetical planet about which scientist has predicted that its mass is multiples of 10 compared to earth as well as the diameter of the planet is in multiples of 4 compared to our planet earth because of this massive planet’s gravitational pull number of dwarf planets and Kuiper belt objects including Uranus and Neptune they are deviating from there in nowadays although this the whole scientific community it is a big argument among them many of the scientists believe this planet existence, as well as several scientists, also doubts on the existence of this planet.
History
In the back 1846, our solar system’s last official planet Neptune was discovered after a period of being discovered the last official planet Neptune there begin debate among them about that is there any planet that exists after this also planet. You know as the 9th planet of our solar system astronomers around the world began a race of finding the 9thplanet Lowell an American mathematician and astronomer in our solar system.
Among these astronomers, one of the astronomer’s name Percival Lowell an American mathematician and astronomer Mr. Lowell is a businessman who spends money from a business on research he also created a private space observatory from where he daily sees the sky observation among the observations in one observation he noticed a weird thing he saw did the planet urinous.
The planet Neptune’s observed orbital speed is less than the speed he calculated and noticed that out from their orbit a big planet attracts them towards itself and the force appears to be real so only he named the hypothetical planet X.
Pluto
After 1906 the observatory is fully dedicated to research about the planet X, after several times, he failed to directly observe the planet X however on the other side his effects were not wasted, in the Lowell observatory a researcher and American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh the year 1930 by validating Lowell’s hypothesis the 9th planet was discovered which was Pluto.
The discovery
They were in a search of a big planet X but they found a small Pluto I shall remind you that at that time Pluto was considered a planet after the discovery of Pluto Lowell’s team was very excited why not the team discovered the 9th planet in our solar system but there was a big problem around it and the problem was compared to the other planets the mass of the planet Pluto was very small because of this the planet Pluto itself can’t influence the objects around it by this the team realized that this was not the planet which they were searching for a long period. after this incident, the race to find a new planet also began.
After the discovery of the planet Pluto almost 75 years in 2005 finally, astronomers found the new planet from the calculation astronomers assume that the planet has more mass than compared to Pluto and assume that this would be the planet X b for the confirmation of this planet they found one more planet they found several planets after the planet Pluto it seemed read undiscovered part of a solar system was now visible to us.
But unfortunately, with this discovery instead of happiness in the scientific community there began an argument the argument was on that we can’t name every planet we discovered to be the planet X although the argument was right there must be some specific rules by let’s specific rules, we can define some planets by this only the founded planet was named as Eriss the God of discord and arguments in 2005. Because of this discovery only they have to create some specific rules let me understand some rules in a simplified way.
Rules
Rule number 1: The planet must orbit a star.
Rule number 2: The planet must be big enough to have enough gravity to force it into a spherical ship.
Rule number 3: The planet must be big enough that its gravity clears away any other objects of similar size near its orbit around.
Pluto follows the first two rules without doubt, but it omits rule number three that the planet must be big enough that its gravity clears away any other objects of similar size near its orbit around.
Pluto is a part of the Kuiper belt in which Pluto trillions of celestial bodies like comets or asteroids it has some mass, but it doesn’t have enough mass to clear the objects near it because of this only in 2005 Pluto was not considered as a planet so the planet Pluto was reconsidered as a dwarf planet. Not only this planet after this, but all the planets also who does not come under the rules is considered dwarf planet.
Dwarf Planet
The term Dwarf planet is defined as a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
To date, we have recognized only 5 planets as dwarf planets. They are
1. ERIS
2. CERES
3. PLUTO
4. HAUMEA
5. MAKEMAKE
although all the planets no planet can be addressed as Unknown planet X. We didn’t get any planet that deviates from other planets.
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere. As a part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach gas giants Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with ice giants Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 2 remains the only spacecraft to have visited either of the ice-giant planets. when passed through these giant gas planets it observed the planet’s orbit more precisely.
From its observation, we came to know that Percival Lowel assumes that the mass of the planet, The considered mass during calculation is slightly lower than its actual mass because of this only there is an irregularity among the planets Neptune and Uranus. It showed that on which basis the planet X has to be discovered it was wrong, now this new information had a full stop on the planet X and the planet X was considered as a hypothetical planet but this was not true for a long period.
The year 2015
In 2015 astronomers got a new clue on the existence of Planet X. Astronomers Michael Brown and Constantine Battagen discovered that around Neptune there was unexplainable gravitational force present and there are some celestial objects which follow some irregular motion. The asteroid’s motion was different let me explain to you with an example.
The Dwarf planet Sedna is located 90AU from the sun which means it is far from the earth. Like Sedna, six other dwarf planets revolve or move in a white elliptical orbit which describes that they are affected by strong gravitation pull this observation is much simple planet x is not hypothetical it can exist.
Conclusion
It defines that if we need to know about Planet X, we need to know more about it and this observation can be obtained only with a good telescope. It states that as compared to 1906, 2005, and 2015 today we have more advanced telescopes but if we consider the observations, we got from our advanced telescopes we know a planet Far Far out.
No, I am not talking about the distance it’s the name of the planet why not its name means a lot to it the distance between our earth and Far Far out is 140A.U but wait if you think about it is the largest distance then wait a second know this before that If a planet like Planet X exists it must have a distance of 600A.U from the sun which is a long distance it is quite complicated to imagine this distance but this is nothing in front of our solar systems actual edge the last limit is more than 5000A.U.
FAQ
What is a dwarf planet?
The term Dwarf planet is defined as a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
What is AU?
The astronomical unit (symbol: au, or AU or AU) is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun, and equal to 150 million kilometers (93 million miles) or 8.3 light minutes.
