Daily Archives: January 20, 2016


Back to Nine?

In case you haven’t heard, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found compelling evidence for the existence of a new planet in our solar system.  Dubbed “Planet Nine”, the large body (about 10 times the mass of Earth) has not been seen or detected by any camera (that we know of), but is strongly believed to exist because of its affect on other bodies. Planet Nine orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles – far beyond the distance to Neptune, the most distant of the currently known 8 planets, or even the dwarf planet, […]