Planet Nine

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title: Planet Nine
text: Planet Nine is a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of orbits for a group of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs), bodies beyond Neptune that orbit the Sun at distances averaging more than 250 times that of the Earth i.e. over 250 astronomical units (AUs). These ETNOs tend to make their closest approaches to the Sun in one sector, and their orbits are similarly tilted. These alignments suggest that
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description: Hypothetical Solar System planet
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine
date created: 2016-01-20T16:32:33Z
date modified: 2024-09-10T08:07:06Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Planet_nine_artistic_plain.png","width":1920,"height":1280}
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