The search for our solar system's ninth planet | Mike Brown

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Could the strange orbits of small, distant objects in our solar system lead us to a big discovery? Planetary astronomer Mike Brown proposes the existence of a new, giant planet lurking in the far reaches of our solar system -- and shows us how traces of its presence might already be staring us in the face.
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[@Aaron7075]

This guy Mike Brown is actually a huge fucking deal in the science community. He found most of the Dwarf Planets I grew up memorizing as well as two of Pluto’s moons, Sedna like he said, as well as a dwarf planet much larger than Pluto. It’s crazy how humble this guy is considering how big of an impact he has had on astronomy

[@ClockworkAvatar]

more like this TED, more like this.

[@7eamGhast]

ClockworkAvatar *THIS IS LITERALLY POISON FOR YOU SOUL! THEY ARE CAPTIVATING YOUR IMAGINATION WITH FAIRY TAIL LIES!*

[@spartanatreyu]

@@7eamGhast Cool story bro

[@paulgreen2416]

@Real Donald Trump what are you smoking?? And where can I get some??? I'm asking for a friend 😄

[@spartanatreyu]

@@paulgreen2416 Hey don't diss it. It's a better story than the last three star wars movies, I'm about willing to try anything now.

[@paulgreen2416]

@@spartanatreyu 😂👍

[@ayman-hosny1]

I've subtitled this video into Arabic for TED. I'm wishing to be useful for all Arabic audience as well as people speak Arabic. Have a nice watching! ________ Enjoy!

[@yt-sh]

Do definitely for Ted-ED

[@KazimirQ7G]

Thanks a lot! And welcome to the community of silent heroes who help deliver knowledge to a broader audience. I usually do the same as you, translating to portuguese, but someone else beat me in this one. It's my way of contributing to society.

[@ayman-hosny1]

@@KazimirQ7G Welcome as a rather hero of our global community who makes words seen and facilitate languages to all folks!

[@kjm0677]

Thank you Auman Hosny!!!

[@Blalack77]

This is a strange and interesting part of Astronomy. Planets that are really far away, but still in our system. So it's kind of in-between looking for planets in distant systems and looking at what we know in our neighborhood. It's just really wild. Makes me wonder how many planets there could possibly be in our solar system.

[@914050]

The method for identifying distant planets is to measure how they block their stars light periodically. Unfortunately, this method wouldn't work for Planet 9.

[@Blalack77]

@@914050 Yeah that's crazy... So it's actually a lot closer than other planets but still harder to find...

[@sciencetroll6304]

It has to be thirteen, just because.

[@Yakez42]

Also its getting more stale with every decade. We have no big leaps in instrumentation with our tech, like Hubble was almost 3! decades ago. Literally planet nine can take a lifetime to discover and astronomers would every couple of years say "yea we are close, in couple of years we would have lame white blob image"

[@DevinDTV]

@@Yakez42 yeah true, it'll be like a whitish subpixel

[@veeg3959]

has anybody noticed a huge increase on "space" talk?

[@rcook2608]

@Vee G Yeah it’s because people are waking up to the reality of the flat earth. Stop believing in cartoons and fake cgi balls falling through endless space. Research flat earth

[@Encephalitisify]

Yeah. Because this planet is dying.

[@thrift_jacob]

Shanti Shanti it’s not dying we are killing it

[@thrift_jacob]

Shanti Shanti but don’t worry it will be around long after us

[@rcook2608]

@Jake T CO2 levels have only gone up 0.01% Stop believing the climate hysteria and wake up. Research flat earth

[@michaleandmore5111]

Planet 9 is just that relative that comes only for Thanksgiving, planetary Thanksgiving is 1 billion years apart

[@IgnoredAdviceProductions]

Ultra Mega it’s the racist uncle!

[@paulmccloud9395]

Planet annoying mother in law.

[@freighttrain7143]

@Ultra Mega If you watched the video, you know its NEAR PASS is still beyond all the other planets. So no, we won't see any effect. We will just be able to see it, for a VERY long time before it moves out of range again.

[@jstnxprsn]

I LOVE stuff like this. We are far from discovering all the greatest wonders.

[@paystation4pro15]

Damn this was really interesting

[@Aden068]

100th like first reply

[@Magentmeta]

How do you lose a planet? You forget to cherish her.

[@Ruby321123]

If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it. Look at Saturn. Saturn's not going anywhere. 🍷

[@garrettk7166]

Ah ah oh

[@CamdenE]

@@garrettk7166 ok beyonce

[@wandersgion4989]

leo fiesinger Losing mass. 💪🏻

[@revolver6389]

Get a shadow gov.

[@appleipodtouch2g]

imagine if planet 9 had a 10,000 year orbit and it just so happens to be at its furthest point from the sun..... theres no way we’d ever know

[@goldengun9970]

Yes. They are just wrongg aboud dates like 2012. It could be far enough away that they haven't seen it yet

[@BonaFideWildLife]

We'd never know, yet our ancestors knew. The Sumerians recorded planet 9 a.k.a. Nibiru on a tablet sometime in between 3,500BC to 2,334BC... or ~5,000 yrs ago!

[@jeancarlosgarcia1884]

It allegedly has an orbit of 20,000 years around our sun.

[@justinsmith4562]

@@jeancarlosgarcia1884 10,000

[@roannjunio-hartmann2614]

Planet 9 where giants came from.

[@Marchant2]

TED Talks is a true gift of the internet. This is fantastic.

[@JoeHeine]

Not all of them. Most TED talks are politicized nonsense now.

[@MaskMasterEsquire]

I'm betting the ninth planet will be the one between the eighth planet and the tenth planet.

[@FreeStuffPlease]

I'll take your bet. And until you prove a tenth planet exists, you owe me 20$.

[@MaskMasterEsquire]

@@FreeStuffPlease I'll take your bet and you're gonna regret because the truth is out there.

[@timelapse7454]

😄

[@ansh6370]

@@FreeStuffPlease Don't take the bet, he might be able to prove planet 10 exists but he will never be able to prove it doesn't exist, if the planet doesn't exist he will just say it's not in the direction we're looking at so you'll never get your $20.

[@MaskMasterEsquire]

@@ansh6370 Look, I know for sure there are more than 9 planets because there was 79 episodes of Star Trek.

[@YoGranDaddyEvil]

I can remember back in the early 80's in school learning about Planet X. Pluto was still a planet back then so yeah.

[@Cionaoith]

When I was your age, our solar system had nine planets.

[@shilohauraable]

Same Here! 😁

[@LeAvanttube]

There are actually 32 to 42 known planets (including Pluto) 😉

[@TheRazzaManazza]

And then the definition changed. That's all.

[@Cionaoith]

@@TheRazzaManazza Wait... you mean Saturn hasn't migrated to a different system?

[@TheRazzaManazza]

@@Cionaoith that's right! For all those people that cry over Pluto being demoted... nothing has changed except the wording. It's no more and no less what it was before. A rock in space. Merry Christmas

[@EcoMouseChannel]

Planet IX just doesn't have the same ring to it.

[@celtisafricana4984]

Unlike Saturn?

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

It’s the name of a world in Frank Herbert’s _Dune_ universe where technically-illegal technologies are practised.

[@celtisafricana4984]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 And Saturn has rings... 🤦‍♂️

[@RedStefan]

Unlike planet X

[@VikingMuayThai]

Nibiru is to meta...

[@EstebanGallardo]

I liked the theory that planet nine is just a primordial black hole. Good luck finding that, it would be billions of times easier to find a needle in a haystack.

[@efari]

Esteban Gallardo stop saying that expression as if that’s a difficult thing. Everyone can find a needle in a haystack, just use a magnet. It’s easy!

[@terryh6666]

Primordial black holes still emit plenty of Hawking radiation that we could detect

[@foodforthought7810]

@@terryh6666 We detect black hole via x-rays produced by material falling into it. If a black hole has no "food", it will be invisible. Btw, hawking radiation has never actually been detected by sensors but we have the math to know it probably exists.

[@terryh6666]

Food For Thought Correct however, primordial black holes are completely theoretical also. Black holes were first calculated before observed, the math for black holes is pretty tight, I believe Hawking radiation to be as correctly indicative by the math as the original mathematical theory of the immense parts of space with infinite gravitational denseness when stars collapse into black hole’s. Leading me to also believe the math for primordial black holes is correct for existence. I should have been more specific in the theoretical nature in my reply, thanks for letting me know

[@whywatchme2214]

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[@jayrakmoola8137]

They took Pluto out because they knew the “9” planet will be found soon, yet the Sumerians knew about this thousands of years ago, and to them it was the 10th, Niburu !

[@laur-unstagenameactuallyca1587]

remember when this concept used to be a conspiracy theory? 😂

[@thefurkage]

Nibiru lol

[@Bread-ni1px]

The name Nibiru is kinda nostalgic now for some reason lol.

[@bjorn1583]

@@Bread-ni1px because thats its name, the bible calls it wormwood and nasa planet x

[@JoeHeine]

2020 proved all the conspiracy theorists right

[@adorabasilwinterpock6035]

Nibiru is still a conspiracy theory because - planet 9 has nothing to do with aliens - it will never hit the earth

[@793Force]

Wonderful talk, love all the space related topics!

[@jrcat2258]

We should just call it "Nine"

[@GlennYarwood]

Ninebiru?

[@marygreenfield528]

And seven can be from there?

[@globalvillage423]

Seven of nine.

[@maroairpower]

Deep Space Nine

[@jamesfinley8810]

glenn yarwood idk why this is clicking for me.

[@sogley]

Excellent content, excellent delivery.

[@filmfan4]

I heard at one point that ‘planet 9’ may in fact be a miniature black hole 🕳 about 5cm in diameter. If so it would be awesome to send a high speed probe to get close to it!

[@oliverm8058]

Tom Holland totally!

[@Dookie9669]

impossible because natural black holes cannot physically form that small or anything even close to that mass, and there hasnt been enough time in the existance of spacetime for a blackhole to decay that small

[@filmfan4]

Dookie9669 actually it is not yet known where the mass boundary is between the maximum mass of a neutron star and the minimum mass of a black hole. It could well be that the minimum stable size of a black hole is smaller than an apple; we just do not know yet. As to the amount of time/age of the universe, as I understand it, there is currently a crisis in astrophysics, where the discrepancy between different methods of gauging the age of the universe has diverged considerably as methods of measurement have become more precise (the upper and lower estimates being 12 billion and 56 billion years respectively)

[@seanharris8419]

Dookie There’s a theory about objects called “primordial black holes.” Go ahead and do some research. It’s pretty interesting. Anyway, if this theory about them is correct, then it would be possible that a black hole that size could have formed at the very beginning of the universes existence.

[@Dookie9669]

@@seanharris8419 interesting, ive heard of it, and if blackholes that size can exist its very scary since they could just wander to the solar system or even earth, especially if there are lots of them around

[@DavidWebsterAD]

Interesting. So planet 9 is back on the table again.

[@adls04]

Didnt realize this was a new ted talk, im just binging them

[@virginiatyree6705]

12 23 19 Hey ArthurHaXz, Maybe, binge-watching?, maybe. Be well. v

[@remylebeau2357]

Lol i thought you were talking about the damn search engine 😂🤣 like how we say googling but with Bing lmfao

[@mechloe8528]

Great talk..very interesting!! I didn't know they'd found more objects orbiting like Planet 9

[@chainsawkillers]

After years of trying they haven't found Planet 9. It's a daily moving target and they have more space to cover. But if they don't find it when a new telescope comes online in Chile shortly it will be all over for Planet 9

[@wesleythomas6858]

Sounds like the Death Star to me!

[@OrcCorp]

Can't wait for it! 😎👍🏼

[@nikunja7561]

Cant wait till we die huh?

[@weirdmatter]

@Anunnaki Nibiru coming by beginning December 21 2021 of course.

[@weirdmatter]

@Anunnaki You should know that!

[@blakevollbrecht9026]

there's a ton of stuff out there in the dark; rogue planets that escaped their stars and zillions of rocks everywhere

[@randyralls9658]

Maybe

[@ChaineYTXF]

Okay, this is the TED I remember. TED at its best. Except when Mike said circle. It's ellipses but hey.. no harm done😁

[@citizenblue]

10:08 Sitchin fuel ahead. Here comes the Annunaki 🤔

[@arldoran]

Name it "Persephone". That poor woman suffered enough under Pluto's shadow.

[@nebulae64]

I would like to help in creating a machine learning algorithm to sift through the existing imagery, if there's an approximated size and we know roughly wear to look and the focal length of each lense looking. It should be fairly easy to scan the existing photos.

[@DwainDwight]

I think the evidence for a distant planet 9 is mounting. interesting times. Mike Brown, you are an outstanding presenter.

[@mattball420]

Scientists: *finds a star 5 billion light years away* Also scientists: *cant find a planet in our own solar system*

[@StefenTower]

Has a lot to do with how light works.

[@bersig]

I'm sure there's a lot of undiscovered real estate out there in the outer solar system. Big planets are interesting, but go check out Brown's list of dwarf planets. Then imagine each one as the resource base for a swarm of habitats. The little ones that are easier to mine for resources are much more interesting.

[@freedom7168]

Wow it's so amazing that there is one more planet in our solar system

[@videoomaster]

I hope the thrill of being the famous astrolhysist that discovered planet 9 motivates a lot of scientist to look for it. Also let's throw more funding into this

[@erikedward1]

This guy is a great talker/presenter. Also half the comments in here are about pluto and how its not a planet anymore

[@garrettk7166]

Many of us still feel the sting of losing Pluto as a planet.

[@nguyentri3608]

Mike also played a big role bringing Pluto to its dwarf planet status, check out his book “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”

[@virginiatyree6705]

12 23 19 Hey Erik, He's a hater of Pluto; (just kidding). He's a planetary astronomer & helped downgrade Pluto's planet status, which upset A LOT of Pluto lovers. Hope that helps. Be well. v

[@virajbhale3869]

Actually there can be many explanations of those strange orbits. There can be a distant star pulling at them! But believe me I would be just as happy to witness the discovery of the ninth planet.

[@deviduttpandey9120]

Imagine If we found this planet 9 how big will became our solar system

[@dhruv1863]

It is already very big. After the discovery of dwarf planet "goblin" in our solar system in 2016, the orbit of goblin is monstrous. It takes 40,000 years to orbit the sun. Just search the goblin dwarf planet

[@Aden068]

@@dhruv1863 planet nine was discovered before goblin was.

[@Pr0teus14420]

I hope the the find it soon. If it is the missing gas giant from the 5 planet Nice model, they should name it Vulcan. As it probably formed closer in, and was more or less kicked out of the solar system. It would be a great mythological reference, and a great Sci-Fi reference. Alternatively, if it is not the giant plant from the 5 planet Nice model, but it is the final planter they should probably name it Terminus. Again, a great Mythological and Sci-Fi reference.

[@pyschologygeek]

The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.

[@CosmicCleric]

Nice quote, but why post it here, context wise?

[@thegreenbastard5171]

I'm excited, I can't wait. Will it be a rocky planet?

[@eltreum1]

It would be cool if we could get more space telescopes and send them into orbit around Saturn or Jupiter and use their dark side to get some really good pictures looking outward from the solar system. Even our own moon would provide a dark enough place to get longer exposure pictures to find dim objects. Get a few planets rigged up and point them all at the same place and the array would be so huge we could make stereoscopic 3d pictures in solar system scale.

[@florencelai2280]

Planet 9 could be a small brown dwarf , our sun's missing sibling.

[@quasarsphere]

Very very unlikely.

[@Shadowsofinkprojects]

Not likely at all... It's not massive enough to be a brown dwarf. It'd have to be at least 4000 times more massive than earth... and planet nine is calculated to be between 5 and 10 times more massive.

[@mikelee1097]

Wow... this is so Amazing!!!

[@jrisner6535]

Brilliant talk, thank you

[@edwardthetwentyfifth6462]

Interesting indeed

[@prawnmikus]

Could these orbits be explained by an object that flew through our solar system on an interstellar trajectory, or are they only explained by a point-source of mass in the orbit they already think its in? Also, if there is a 5x Earth mass planet out there, would it not have some sort of radio emissions? Would it not occult distant stars and galaxies or the CMB? Are the Voyager probes anywhere near the predicted orbit such that they could scan for lightning radio emissions? I know it would take a long time to reflect, but could we bounce very powerful radar out that far and expect any sort of faint reflection? Is there a way to detect the minuscule amount of gravitational lensing something this size would produce, affecting light coming to us from behind? Instead of scanning old images of the solar system, could we feed as much data as possible into a deep neural-net style array and have it try to predict an orbit and location? I find it bizarre that this thing is so hard to see, but it goes to show I can't quite grok the vastness of space.

[@jasonsharma5888]

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[@jasonsharma5888]

if they do not find it can we consider EM?

[@spartanatreyu]

"Could these orbits be explained by an object that flew through our solar system on an interstellar trajectory, or are they only explained by a point-source of mass in the orbit they already think its in?" - There are multiple explainations but an orbiting body is by far the best one. That said, we still don't have anywhere enough data. Unless we're lucky and serendipitously get the right data early, we'll likely have to wait until the LSST is running. "Also, if there is a 5x Earth mass planet out there, would it not have some sort of radio emissions?" - Not necessarily, at least at any strength we could use to comb the sky to try and find it. "Would it not occult distant stars and galaxies or the CMB?" - Stars and galaxies yes, CMB not really. The CMB is really faint and so images take a while to form. We're also going to likely be living on the moon and mars before we had something that could continuously map out the CMB at a high enough quality to spot planets against it (and that's assuming that the planet even has a different black body than the CMB behind it). "Are the Voyager probes anywhere near the predicted orbit such that they could scan for lightning radio emissions?" - The voyager probes aren't near anything. Also at that distance, the planet may not have the right kind of atmosphere and internal heat for lightning to occur. "I know it would take a long time to reflect, but could we bounce very powerful radar out that far and expect any sort of faint reflection?" - It's far too far for any kind of radar that we have. "Is there a way to detect the minuscule amount of gravitational lensing something this size would produce, affecting light coming to us from behind?" - Yes, that would be fairy easy. The only problem would be that there would have to be stars in the right places and it wouldn't be repeatable. Once we already know where the planet is, we could check for an atmosphere and put limits on the planet's size if we were watching a star at the right time while it passed in front. (This method was used to discover Uranus' rings and that Neptune's rings have gaps in them) "Instead of scanning old images of the solar system, could we feed as much data as possible into a deep neural-net style array and have it try to predict an orbit and location?" - We don't have enough data, and there's no need for a neural network. It's easy enough to figure out by hand. We just don't have enough data yet. People may use neural networks to find missed data once the LSST is up and running.

[@Flatallica]

Close your eyes, Kermit knows astro physics..

[@abrakadabhra]

Mike Calvert 🤣🤣🤣🤣trippy

[@schwenke069]

I believe you brother. Would love to hear that it's found. Only have a small plastic telescope ... and hopefully 30 years left. Counting on someone!

[@SubwayTutorials]

Truth

[@yakam_dlop.]

Nice job

[@Aaron.Monroe]

Very well put together presentation by a very good speaker.

[@itsyoujitsu]

Joe Rogan and Eddie Bravo have been talking about this planet for years, 10th planet jiu jitsu

[@r.deeblanche6939]

fascinating

[@chaithuchannakesavula6976]

Neptune be like, don't look at me bro! I did nothing to sedna she's on her own.

[@tomkelly8827]

According to our oldest texts from Sumeria, there are 12 planets. They count the sun and our moon as well as the 9 we know and love, including Pluto as well as another that has a different orbit then the rest, it is called Niburu. When Niburu's moon collided with Tiamat, it split it into our moon and earth. That created the Pacific ocean on the one side of our planet from the impact. It has an eliptical orbit that takes 3600 earth years to complete. That is "Mount Olympus" where our "Gods" live. They are the ancient aliens that created all of the most ancient megalithic structures on this planet. There is so much more to it too. Zacharia Sitchin has written extensively on this topic, I highly recomend his books

[@koenarmstrong1376]

Tom Kelly one of the most accurate explanation I’ve seen in a KZbin comment

[@ETAisNOW-wn8wx]

Super interesting but it's bias confirmation and speculation. I want to believe it.

[@George_M_]

To all the Pluto lovers, if you're gonna complain about that, then we have far more than nine already, Eris is bigger, and there are several comparable others.

[@jimschuler8830]

To all the Pluto haters, Jupiter is a "dwarf planet" as well as it orbits a barycenter, not the Sun. That means we need to find planet 8 before we can look for planet 9.

[@LewisWallin]

@@jimschuler8830 That's just wildly incorrect. Jupiter does orbit the Sun-Jupiter barycenter, which lies outside the Sun, but there's nothing in the official definition of a planet that disqualifies objects like that. It still orbits the sun, its barycenter is just bigger than those of the other planets.

[@jimschuler8830]

@@LewisWallin "It's wildly incorrect." Then goes on to reiterate what was stated. Good job!

[@LewisWallin]

@@jimschuler8830 Dude, a planet orbiting the barycenter of it and the Sun, wherever it may lie, does not factor in to whether or not it's a planet. Jupiter's main attractor is the Sun, same goes for the rest of the planets.

[@jimschuler8830]

@@LewisWallin Dude, the definition is orbits the Sun, not orbits a barycenter with the Sun, not has the Sun as its main attractor. You're just horribly incorrect. Fortunately, Jupiter is still a planet, but not because you're right, but because astronomical convention dictates that a dwarf x is still an x. (see dwarf galaxies and dwarf stars). Unfortunately, this does mean you still have to go outside of your comfort zone and count beyond the aid of your ten fingers.

[@dsmith421]

Liked before I even watched!!👍

[@StephanieElizabethMann]

Brilliant

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Pluto is like: I have crippling depression

[@jvan9581]

I never related to a planet until today

[@Ruby321123]

Hey girl! Good to see you again!

[@JM-us3fr]

Why should it? It's king of the dwarf planets. Honestly, "pluto" is actually a fitting name, being king of the underworld.

[@andrewjennings7306]

Bro what u doing here go back to the creepypasta channels.

[@The_Muthias]

"That's no moon" - owk

[@chivalryalive]

matt costa -- Smart alleck! :-)

[@jecabreradc]

Awesome

[@kinngrimm]

marvelous

[@summerWTFE]

How can you have a talk like this and not mention Zecharia Sitchin?

[@2KNUCKLEZ2]

phero exactly what i thought .... i highly doubt he hasn’t read all of it or come across it at one point ...

[@summerWTFE]

DRO Reactions yeah, especially since he goes through some of the history.

[@TheBlakebbt]

For real

[@numlockkilla]

Mainstream vs

[@johnnysparkleface3096]

Because not everyone believes everything they hear on Coast To Coast. Does George Noory EVER call BS on any guest? Nope. I even heard one show where George called in to his own show and pretended to be himself from the future!

[@Showmaann]

who else is excited for the future :D i feel 2020 is gonna be the start of a new era idk why-

[@glamdrag]

i feel like it will be the start of a new decade. idk why

[@Showmaann]

@@glamdrag ha ha ha you are so clever, apart from that im talking about a sensation of change.

[@unitedstatesofavalon6760]

Comment didn't age well.. 🤣

[@Showmaann]

@@unitedstatesofavalon6760 Sadly xD i was right about the start of a new era tough, feels like it.

[@bobhager5248]

Merry Christmas

[@LuisRuiz-sv2mz]

Robert Harrington and zacharia sitchen discussed their theory and where it might be in the southern hemisphere.

[@koenarmstrong1376]

It’s an alien Death Star monitering the solar system or a big planet

[@acesmak]

koen Armstrong silly that is the moon.

[@koenarmstrong1376]

acesmak 🤦🏼‍♂️ Now I feel stupid

[@acesmak]

koen Armstrong our moon is a death star and that planet is orbiting a brown dwarf star that is my shot in the dark.

[@koenarmstrong1376]

acesmak YES I always say our moons a Death Star We only ever see one side of the moon and it’s 3x bigger than any moon for our sized planet should be. Also in many ancient texts they talk about the time before there was a moon in the sky But it’s just crazy that all of these “coincidences” in our moon all relate to the fact that the moon could not do what it’s doing naturally

[@feeberizer]

Actually, there IS a death star orbiting Saturn. It's called Mimas....

[@richardkocksworthy8423]

Funny how our best space science looks like bad space graphics from the eighty's 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@citrus_aves]

Amazing!!

[@luisarroyo1368]

My guess for fun would be the sun has a dark companion star or super Jupiter planet that came just short of being a brown dwarf. Another possibility would be a terrestrial earth-sized planet or a small black hole powerful enough to perturb the orbits but yet small enough not to perturb our solar system's major planets.

[@tee-sam-ee-red]

Who is ted and why has he never made an appearance on this show Edit: this is the most amount of likes and replies I've ever gotten thanks guys

[@bobhope4288]

TED doesn't Talk. That is why they do this in Ted's honor.

[@andrewjennings7306]

But why dont u ask how is Ted?😞

[@jaywyse7150]

Technology, entertainment, and Design.

[@AnunnakiAaron]

Ted is actually mute

[@lachlanperhavec]

Andrew Jennings I’ll do you one better why is Ted?

[@savitrrakatamatah7256]

imagine if the sun captured a rogue dwarf star in its gravitational field in the past

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Unlikley, more likley it would be a rogue planet WISE hasnt detected any brown dwarf closet than like 6 ligth years

[@marions2393]

Awesome info Mike Brown

[@dickwatson5329]

A great informative video

[@ayeshaosmani3361]

Very interesting TED Talk about Ninth Planet.

[@brax300]

I tried to say your name outside and I accidentally cursed my brother, good luck Connor

[@hisham5702]

@@brax300 lmao , Idk why I laughed so hard at that

[@Viennery]

So... They pretty much HAVE to name it Nibiru, right?

[@pedrootavioazevedodaroz1736]

Not necesary, Nibiru is a red planet, so if the planet is not red It cant be Nibiru

[@citizenblue]

I'm going to say yes, if orbital inclination and orbital period are anything close to the ones stated for Nibiru. Then we should probably hail the planet and see if we get a response...

[@IamGrimalkin]

I'm so used to Niribu being a Yu-Gi-Oh card now I forgot it was a planet conspiracy theory...

[@extratropicalcyclone8567]

We should name it nibiru only if it is a rocky planet.

[@EuriEuropa]

We are from niburu

[@Alexkandar]

At last, they are going to discover Nibiru planet..

[@mysteryguest9555]

For a moment, I thought he was going to say that planet 9 was in fact a primordial black hole and that was the reason why we could not see it.

[@fredrikohrman]

Use BOINC and the help of the world and all the unused prossesing power outthere

[@gun_ape]

I love these.

[@mikecmw8492]

Not when they are to bullshit us. They have some reason to hide Pluto being a planet. This guy like many must follow orders.

[@tinacollins9213]

Good video

[@seangreen4896]

His analogy makes it sound like there's a celebrity everybody staring at

[@wingeddragonofra]

Pluto leaves without saying a word Pluto with a mustache makes it’s way in front of a telescope

[@BigBuck3ts]

I’m imagining Pluto whistling as it walks out of and back into frame

[@Linkous12]

Super interesting. Great presenter, too.

[@LaibaStarXX]

My best guess is the impact of dark energy causing gravitational pull.

[@RottenStormtrooper]

*Pluto has entered the chat.*

[@bananaaix]

RottenStormtrooper LMAO

[@nguyentri3608]

Well, if he’s the right Mike Brown, then he was the one who killed Pluto

[@harryd7197]

Exactly we already had a 9th planet but this mike brown guy decided to cross it off the list due to a very laughable technicality. Which btw is such a nerd thing to do. When they see one piece of evidence that provides the opportunity to prove others wrong they jump on it before thinking about all the other factors. So quick to be first, who cares if its right... its sensational. But the problem is they never actually discussed the fact that pluto lies so far out, near the ort cloud with an oblong and asymetrical orbit that if you include the orbit of all the other objects out there which also have oblong and asymmetrical orbits that Pluto will constantly cross in front of the path ways of those other objects. Making the technicality that it didn't clear its own orbit inconsequential because it can never clear its orbit due to its location, size and current age of our solar system. Its like calling a chicken hatching out of an egg "an egg" because its still inside the shell when you last saw it even though you can planely see a chicken inside. Mike Brown is that kid in class that just wanted to prove the teacher wrong no matter what even if its at the cost of the rest of the class learning nothing that day

[@Bhalforii]

@@harryd7197 TECHNICALITY?! It's the same size as thousands of other heavenly bodies in our solar system in orbit around the sun. If Pluto is the ninth then it shouldnt be the 9 planets it should be the 6347 planets. Try memorizing those.

[@BlackNomad1]

Ghelma Well said. Harry is misinformed as to why Pluto continues to remain a planet.

[@musicalneptunian]

Arnold Rimmer has decided that it's a red dwarf.

[@simplysteve68]

Rimmer was a "Smeeeeeeeg Head!!!" Lol

[@mattolfson9230]

I still think the ice dwarf/plutiod Brown discovered should have kept the original name he gave it: Xena (and Gabriel being its tag-along satellite). The international astronmy asociation only has naming rights on actual plantets and their moons, not the smaller, more distant objects.

[@razelighter1848]

What if stars and some planets gravitational pull is so strong, it can effect other outer- dimensional objects? Therefore, some forces "unseen" can effect planetary alignments and such.

[@spartanatreyu]

Thanks to LIGO, we can confirm that the energy of gravitational waves produced by colliding black holes matches precisely how we would expect gravity to work if it could only interact with three spacial dimensions. There may be some other kind of extra dimensional physics going around, but it doesn't involve gravity.

[@alansimons141]

Read Mike's book "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming" This guy is awesome!

[@greatdaneacdc]

The energetic forces of Pluto are still here !

[@OmegaZyion]

I prefer the theory that planet 9 is a primordial black hole. Best part of the whole theory is that they have a 1:1 artist interpretation of the black hole in the paper that proposes the idea.

[@Ryan-lk4pu]

How can he predict the size? I'm sure he can predict the gravity well but surely the size would be dependent on the bodies make up? Eg, if it was a gas giant, it would be bigger than if it was a dense, metallic planet?

[@invox9490]

"The Nine have left Minas Morgul." #lor 😄

[@sheri0082]

#NeverForgetPluto

[@fortyseventen]

The amount of zero eccentricity orbits, aka Halo orbits, in the Kuiper belt is astonishing. At least 10 dozen. Based on using these as reliable 'mile markers', it seems that the general region boundaries has a downstream resonance with Jupiter 23:1 to 27:1, or orbital ranges 273 to 321 years. In AU equivalencies, low 42s to high 46s.

[@swapniljadhav3239]

Sooo exciting