Tyche, the TENTH Planet

There is a rumor floating around that the WISE project data might discover an ice giant somewhere out in the Oort cloud

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/up-telescope-search-begins-for-giant-new-planet-2213119.html

The hunt is on for a gas giant up to four times the mass of Jupiter thought to be lurking in the outer Oort Cloud, the most remote region of the solar system. The orbit of Tyche, would be 15,000 times farther from the Sun than the Earth’s, and 375 times farther than Pluto’s, which is why it hasn’t been seen so far.

My comment: exciting news, but the newspapers keep referring to this as a NINTH planet, when Clyde Tombaugh discovered a ninth planet long ago, Yuggoth on the Rim, also called Dis, before he vanished under mysterious circumstances from his observatory at Arkham.

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Published on February 26, 2011 05:18
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