Breaking
News: Planet 9 Found!
Reported on 1st August 2017
A Guest Document
PURPOSE
It is our intent to bring to our
readers the latest information regarding the famed Planet 9 which used
to be called Planet X, "X" for the Roman numeral "10". Once Pluto was
declassified as a planet, then the famed Planet 10 became Planet 9
taking Pluto's number in our solar system.
Official confirmation from the UK Astronomy Technology Centre and the
UK Space Agency is pending. A confirmation which may never come since
Planet 10, and now, 9 may present a destabilization threat to our
planet in the form of a significant increase in the seismic activity.
BACKGROUND
For several years we have been receiving from the National
Earthquake Information Center - U.S. Geological Survey - reports about
earthquakes occurring throughout the world.
When we signed up for such notifications we requested to receive
notices of earthquakes occurring anywhere in the world, with a
magnitude of 5.0 or greater on the Richter scale and not to report
related aftershocks.
As the reports came in, we glanced at them and filed them. The years
for which we had complete listings were for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Now that the month of July has been completed, we can report the State
of the World Earthquakes including the first seven months of the
year.
| Year |
Number of Reports
(earthquakes
over 5.0) |
| 2014 |
665 |
| 2015 |
552 |
| 2016 |
509 |
Average for above three years 575
2017 (the first 7 full months) 846
In the first seven months of the year 2017 we have had 47%
more of over-5.0-in-the-Richter-scale earthquakes than the
average of the three previous full years. Maybe the world
should not be worrying so much about global warming....
With that said, proceed to the News Report on the finding for Planet X
then and now 9.
DETAILS (1)
The mysterious and elusive ninth planet
of our solar system that is believed to be in existence since 2014, has
reportedly been located by a Mr C. Green of Hampshire, UK.
Mr Green, an amateur astronomer, made the
schoolbook-changing discovery using a Meade LightBridge 12"/304.8mm
Reflector Telescope from his home observatory a month ago?. Originally
assuming that it was a much smaller near-Earth object, Mr Green decided
to track its trajectory only to discover that the low apparent
magnitude object is in fact in a highly elliptical orbit and, according
to early calculations, appearing to be travelling towards the inner
solar system. Mr Green has submitted his findings to the UK Astronomy
Technology Centre and the UK Space Agency pending official
confirmation. The elusive Planet Nine may have finally been discovered!
Planet Nine, until recently only a
"hypothetical planet", is believed to exist far beyond Pluto's orbit
apogee, the celestial object that held the title of the 9th planet of
the solar system before being demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006.
Earlier in 2016, scientists from the California
Institute of Technology (2)
announced that a planet ten times the mass
of Earth exists some 19 billion miles away. The solar system has always
been known to be tilted, and experts are attributing this to the
presence of a huge planet on the outer reaches of the Sun's
gravitational pull. The planets as we have known them for hundreds of
years, orbit the Sun on a flat plane, but that rotation is at a
six-degree angle in comparison to the equator of our star. This has
confused astronomers for years. The possibility of a giant planet on
the outskirts of the solar system which is effectively weighing the
rest of it down, has been the most prominent explanation for the angle.
Leading astronomers have been in
agreement that there is a Planet Nine, and entered the race to locate
it earlier in 2016. According to calculations, the elusive planet takes
between 10,000 and 20,000 years to orbit the sun, which highlights just
how far away it is. A probe could be sent out for closer inspection,
but it would take twenty years to get there. In the quest to locate it,
scientists had to resort to high-powered telescopes. There are a few
high-powered telescopes particularly equipped to get the job done, such
as Caltech's Keck Observatory and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, but
Mr Green's reported discovery with the amateur Meade LightBridge is
nothing short of remarkable.
In the scramble to pinpoint Planet Nine,
a number of other interesting space objects have been discovered. Scott
Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo of the Carnegie
Institution for Science (3)
have observed several never-before-seen
objects at extreme distances from the Sun, and have submitted their
findings to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center
for official designations. Spotting these distant objects is important
because examining their behaviour will help to focus the search for
Planet Nine. This is because the planet has its own gravitational pull
and will have a number of smaller things orbiting it.
Sheppard and Trujillo have been working
with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii to conduct the deepest
survey in history for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper belt. The
three scientists have used some of the most incredible telescopes and
cameras ever made including the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4-meter
Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime-Cam on the
8-meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii, and have thus far managed to cover
about 10% of the sky in their quest to find Planet Nine. Sheppard has
stated that we are now in a similar situation to when Neptune was first
discovered back in the mid-19th Century. That revelation came about
when Alexis Bouvard noticed that Uranus' orbital motion was peculiar.
Scientists have predicted that the
emergence of Planet Nine would occur soon. In October 2016 astronomer
Mike
Brown estimated (4)
that it would be discovered by the end of 2017. His
reasoning was that because so many people were now on the lookout for
it, the planet - which is ten times the size of Earth - could not go on
hiding for much longer. This would represent a relatively short space
of time between the first theories about the planet and the first
actual encounter.
The leading astronomers at principal
space organisations such as NASA may be slightly peeved though, that
the planet has been found by a mere amateur. But as it stands, Mr Green
is still awaiting official confirmation that his sighting was in fact
the mysterious planet and not just some random space object.
If the discovery of Planet Nine, which has been dubbed as the most
important astronomical discovery of a generation, is officially
credited to Mr Green, he has vowed to name the planet after his cat,
"Emoji". This will mark the first time a planet has ever been named
after a household pet, with most of the others being named after either
Greek or Roman gods or goddesses. The name of our planet, Earth, is
derived from both English and German words that mean "ground."
NOTES
(1) Source
of Report as of August 4, 2017
Published on August 4, 2017
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