Could there be a captured planet hiding in the Oort Cloud?

[jayem]

The Oort Cloud is a vast region in the far outer solar system composed of billions of comets and other icy objects. Most of this icy debris is quite small, but could there be something lurking there, like … a planet? Last month, an international team of researchers said that’s indeed a possibility. They contend that there’s a small chance a wayward planet in our own early solar system ended up in the Oort Cloud. And a slightly higher chance that it was a rouge exoplanet, most likely an ice giant around the size of Neptune. It could have come to rest in the Oort Cloud after being drawn in by the sun’s gravity....

This is purely a speculation. But since Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, it'd be fitting to find another full-sized planet to take its place.

| EarthSky

 

[Maria Billingsley]

The Oort Cloud is a vast region in the far outer solar system composed of billions of comets and other icy objects. Most of this icy debris is quite small, but could there be something lurking there, like … a planet? Last month, an international team of researchers said that’s indeed a possibility. They contend that there’s a small chance a wayward planet in our own early solar system ended up in the Oort Cloud. And a slightly higher chance that it was a rouge exoplanet, most likely an ice giant around the size of Neptune. It could have come to rest in the Oort Cloud after being drawn in by the sun’s gravity....

This is purely a speculation. But since Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, it'd be fitting to find another full-sized planet to take its place.

| EarthSky

Plant X? Nubiru? I think so.
Blessings

 

[essentialsaltes]

And a slightly higher chance that it was a rouge exoplanet,

 

[jayem]

Plant X? Nubiru? I think so.
Blessings

With the exception of Earth, all the other planets have names from classical mythology. So if an ice giant planet exists, how about Boreas? That’s the Greek god of cold north winds and the bringer of winter.

Boreas (god) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[jayem]

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Ha! Sorry for the misspelling.

 

[The IbanezerScrooge]

The Oort Cloud is a vast region in the far outer solar system composed of billions of comets and other icy objects. Most of this icy debris is quite small, but could there be something lurking there, like … a planet? Last month, an international team of researchers said that’s indeed a possibility. They contend that there’s a small chance a wayward planet in our own early solar system ended up in the Oort Cloud. And a slightly higher chance that it was a rouge exoplanet, most likely an ice giant around the size of Neptune. It could have come to rest in the Oort Cloud after being drawn in by the sun’s gravity....

This is purely a speculation. But since Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, it'd be fitting to find another full-sized planet to take its place.

| EarthSky

Oh man you did it now. You mentioned Pluto. I expect AV will be here any minute now...

 

[AV1611VET]

But since Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, it'd be fitting to find another full-sized planet to take its place.

I like the way you worded that.

Is there something you know that the IAU doesn't?

 

[Blade]

The Oort Cloud is a vast region in the far outer solar system composed of billions of comets and other icy objects. Most of this icy debris is quite small, but could there be something lurking there, like … a planet? Last month, an international team of researchers said that’s indeed a possibility. They contend that there’s a small chance a wayward planet in our own early solar system ended up in the Oort Cloud. And a slightly higher chance that it was a rouge exoplanet, most likely an ice giant around the size of Neptune. It could have come to rest in the Oort Cloud after being drawn in by the sun’s gravity....

This is purely a speculation. But since Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet, it'd be fitting to find another full-sized planet to take its place.

| EarthSky

Seriously? HELLO we need to go rescue it!

Sure could be.. wolf was cried sooooooo many times "Planet X is coming any day now" "now its right behind the sun its why we can't see it".

See my thinking is they that captured that planet want something in return so they just tease us "here it us...ah got ya".

 

[AV1611VET]

Seriously? HELLO we need to go rescue it!

Sure could be.. wolf was cried sooooooo many times "Planet X is coming any day now" "now its right behind the sun its why we can't see it".

See my thinking is they that captured that planet want something in return so they just tease us "here it us...ah got ya".

Wasn't it reported that there was a Saturn-like object behind that Hale-Bopp comet or something?

 

[JohnEmmett]

Is there something you know that the IAU doesn't?

They know

https://www.iflscience.com/

 

[JohnEmmett]

When astronomers use a computer to model what gravitational forces are needed for these objects to move like this, they find that a planet at least ten times the mass of Earth would have been required to cause this.

Sara Webb

 

[Blade]

Wasn't it reported that there was a Saturn-like object behind that Hale-Bopp comet or something?

Yeah two people I think back in..... 1995?

 

[jayem]

I like the way you worded that.

Thank you. I was wondering if my phraseology would be interpreted as offensive and demeaning to dwarfs. Or should I say Little People?

Is there something you know that the IAU doesn't?

Hardly. Astronomy is interesting. But my knowledge of detailed astronomical findings and theories is jack squat.

 

[AV1611VET]

Astronomy is interesting. But my knowledge of detailed astronomical findings and theories is jack squat.

That makes two of us.

It's either Jack Squat or Jack Horkheimer!



( Okay. That was bad. Carry on. )

 

[Petros2015]