Planet Nine just got weirder

By Maddie Stone
Updated May 11 2016 - 11:14am, first published May 6 2016 - 9:06am
An artist’s rendering of Planet Nine. Photo: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)
An artist’s rendering of Planet Nine. Photo: Caltech / R. Hurt (IPAC)

If Planet Nine exists, it's been through one hell of an ordeal. That's the takeaway from a series of new studies that ask how in the name of Uranus a planet could have gotten itself into such a whacked-out orbit. This in turn might help explain the unlikely orbits of half a dozen Kuiper Belt objects.

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