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Astrophysicists began to doubt the existence of planet X

Астрофизики стали сомневаться в существовании планеты XAlthough visually it is not detected, around it created considerable excitement.

American astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian center for astrophysics have suggested that in fact planet X, uncovered by scientists in the current year, may not exist at all, because all calculations California the discoverers of the mysterious celestial bodies are unlikely in nature.

A group of researchers from the California Institute of technology (USA) in January 2016 announced the discovery of the ninth planet of the Solar system, called Planet X. planet, which, presumably, larger than the Earth 10 times, has a highly elongated elliptical orbit, away from the Sun 10 times further away than Pluto. Theorists are still unable to explain how a hypothetical ninth planet could get such a strange orbit. Therefore, the very existence of Planet X is being questioned.

Thus, researchers from the University of Michigan spent millions of transactions on computational modeling, put forward three hypotheses that could explain the presence of such a strange planet in the Solar system. The first theory suggests that a star moving past our star system, accidentally pulled Planet X, leaving it on a strange orbit. However, the likelihood of such a scenario only 10%, reported in an article of the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

At the same time planet X could be a lonely wandering exoplanet, pulled our Solar system. Although to count on such a scenario is possible only with a probability of 2%. However, it may be that planet X was formed within our star cluster near the Sun, however, the interaction with the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn forced the planet to shift with circular orbits.

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