Planet X in the Far-flung Outer Solar System #poem #poetry #astronomy #solarsystem #planet
This is the best I can do, since there is no image of Planet X yet
Watching perturbations.
In planets far away,
In cold realms way-past Jupiter,
Past Saturn, wobbles sway.
When Lowell discovered Pluto,
A store of luck was spent.
The famous dwarf is just too small
To tug
Neptune’s
trident.
But orbital mechanics
Cannot be denied.
Something’s out there, far away.
Perhaps a Planet Nine.
Dwarf planets with companions
Among the plutoids hide.
The more we find, the better guess
Where Planet X resides.
Kate Rauner
Thanks to space.com for their article on Goblin (2015 TG387), another Pluto-sort of object tripped over in a long-term, ongoing sky survey that may ultimately find Planet X.
Hypothesized,
And we expect
Someone will spot
This Planet X.
The more plutoids
That we find,
The more our theories
Are refined.
