Found new planet 9 / X ?? Un-verified reports...

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

There's an unverified report floating around 'Facebook' that long-sought Planet 9 / X has been spotted.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 1589471622
Larger than Earth, *fully* cleared its orbit, yada yada yada...

Snag is that has *not* shown up on 'mainstream' news feeds.
Okay, things run real-slow on a Monday morning, but usually catch up by brunch...

It may have been conflated by AI with genuine super-Earth spotted in terrestrial zone of a newly forming star-system, possibly with two further, outer planets: Doppler wobble Orbital gap But, no, the hype says is ours...

No journal reference or observatory report, just generic text which reads like a dunk of LLM guff.
{ Spit !! }

[kdahm]

Ever since the demotion of Pluto through the use of criteria specifically designed to do so, the whole question of what is a planet makes all of these classifications absurd.

This is number 13. Or 14. Or 12. Who the hell knows, because Ceres is too small and Pluto and Eris are big enough.

[Craiglxviii]

#plutowillalwaysbeaplanet

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

An object sized between Earth and Uranus / Neptune would be sufficiently massive to 'clear its orbit', confirm Pluto's demotion.

Some hours along, still not a whisper of validity.
Two possibilities:
It is real, but press release 'held' until whenever, news feeds seething over this 'Gazump'.
It is an AI LLM mashup, either in error or totally fake.

Sadly, I'm increasingly leaning towards latter....

[jemhouston]

#plutowillalwaysbeaplanet

So say we all.

[Nightwatch2]

actually a dwarf planet on a highly elliptical orbit which makes the theoretical Planet Nine impossible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y8uFwm677k

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

The YouTube ? Well described, a genuine dwarf planet, a fraction of size that Facebook post claimed.

After checking for belated news releases, I've flagged the post as 'untruth' and blocked the link.

I doubt Facebook will take any action beyond a belated read-receipt, but worth a try...

FWIW, given the eye-watering distances involved --Both Voyagers are still but a light-day away !!-- I reckon there is ample room for a couple of outliers of true planetary size. IIRC, the infra-red and radio-telescope (*) surveys exclude exotica such as 'Brown Dwarf'' or an extra-solar 'Rogue Planet' hitch-hiker, but...

*) It's the aurora, as on Jupiter, which would reveal any distant kin...

[Paul Nuttall]

Maybe its one that pops into existence and pops out again.....

[Kunkmiester]

Maybe its one that pops into existence and pops out again.....

Quantum planet, name it after the cat...

[Zen9]

Maybe its one that pops into existence and pops out again.....

Quantum planet, name it after the cat...

You mean Tiddles or Mr Fluffy?

[Nik_SpeakerToCats]

Waiting for the Nemesis adherents to claim it...

Speaking of claims, that Prof Loeb is at it again, claiming current interstellar comet is yet-another alien space-ship.

Traditionally, unicorn horns were supposed to reveal poisons. These extra-solar passes seem an excellent way of identifying the foil-beanie re-blogging fringe. I've already blocked several Face-palm Face Book posters this week...

[Nightwatch2]

Waiting for the Nemesis adherents to claim it...

Speaking of claims, that Prof Loeb is at it again, claiming current interstellar comet is yet-another alien space-ship.

Traditionally, unicorn horns were supposed to reveal poisons. These extra-solar passes seem an excellent way of identifying the foil-beanie re-blogging fringe. I've already blocked several Face-palm Face Book posters this week...

They are entertaining to some degree