The Search for Planet Nine | Masao Sako | TEDxPenn

Dr. Sako is currently hunting for the putative giant planet -- Planet Nine -- that might be lurking in the outskirts of our Solar System. Planet Nine, if real, could be as large as ten Earth masses, but will only appear as a faint little dot due to its vast distance from the Sun. Dr. Sako and students use supercomputers to sift through the many millions of detections and background stars, galaxy, and other minor bodies in the solar neighborhood. Its discovery and nature will teach us about the history and formation of our Solar System. Masao Sako is an astrophysicist using large telescopes, supercomputers, and big data to study the Universe. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards at the University of Pennsylvania, including the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@loveworld2416]

Dr. Masao Sako speaks well, looks good, very educated and extremely impressive. Wow. Super.

[@Sam.s777]

Mad sus

[@rico200168]

@@Sam.s777 well I have found it NASA put a big blank box on google sky but I have found what they did not wont us to see it’s on it’s way to us and pass back out again but it would bring such Devastation on us by doing so i will gladly send it to your email

[@nathanmillington7328]

Thank you so much Mr. Sako for you and your teams painstaking efforts to broaden our minuscule understanding of our part in the universe. 😃

[@garvitjain8529]

when sun swallows earth in thousands of years , pluto be like " Who's not a planet now ?"

[@wuhanclan]

It would actually be billions of years before the Sun red giants but gj nonetheless.

[@ryn9]

How to ruin something funny 101

[@DavidPigbody]

I ate a bag of turds

[@srelma]

@@wuhanclan technically correct, which is the best kind of correct

[@omarthedeadaziz6756]

this would be funny if u got the yrs right

[@keithduff6312]

It's amazing to me how we humans have such a strong urge to categorize things. Planet, dwarf planet, asteroid...they are all just chunks of mass orbiting around a bigger chunk of mass. The universe doesn't feel the need to put them in specific categories.

[@jean-simoncaunter5726]

The universe is not naturally categorized, science does that so we can communicate efficiently to an international scale about our understanding of nature.

[@tokyomike8783]

Dr. Sako, profoundly impressive presentation, an eyeopener for me. I'm getting up in years and got away from the awe I had 40 years ago at the exquisite precision and capacity of humankind's advanced equipment, and the underlying brilliance of the people who devised such machinery. Something about the remarkable view at 11:17 is so novel and unexpected, and inspirational, and with it I experience that the awe I had known so long ago.

[@klrkooly6300]

Great comment

[@bryandraughn9830]

As I learned more about astronomy, I was surprised to find that the methods and technology used are just as fascinating as the universe itself. The observations hinted at better ways to make discoveries as the technology was developing, and the stories that unfold truly illustrate human creativity and determination. Learning about the conclusions themselves is only half of the picture. Peace.

[@fidziek]

as skeptical as I am, this lecture was awesome!!! I wish a lot of luck and strength and patience to tat guy!

[@sushilganesh07]

"Uranus is barely visible to your eye" thats true man !

[@oinkleberry]

Yeah I need a mirror to see it smh

[@dommccabe17]

Depends how flexible you are..

[@inmytree1982]

Due to constant humiliation on the name of planet Uranus, scientists agreed to change the name to Urectum.

[@andreasplosky8516]

""Uranus is barely visible to your eye" thats true man !" Uranus might be visible to my eye. Not that I would want to have a look.

[@lovelxne]

I hope so

[@MlleNilusha]

Such a great talk! He explained things so well! And to all the commenters about his speaking skills would probably never be able to stand up in front of a crowd like this. Have a good look at yourself before you leave such mean-spirited comments.

[@SweetSJ23]

I love his passion and his somewhat witty and dry sense of humor heheh :) enjoyed the talk! Hope u find that planet

[@levgtz8158]

Hope you find a life!

[@ryanvilladsen727]

since pluto was demoted, i say the next planet we find be named goofy.

[@WishFacts]

why goofy?

[@shinefia5987]

NamelessGamer lol! Sorry u didnt get it

[@cthreeadkins6296]

This comment is CLASSIC!!!

[@K1lostream]

Can't do that - otherwise the next heavy element that's discovered would have to be called Goofonium.

[@jeremias-serus]

@@Agent_006.9 Pluto is a dog. Goofy is an anthropomorphic dog.

[@johannapetroff8459]

What make me curious about planet nine is that the Sumerians knew of it. Back then, they did not have telescopes or any form of space technology,so they would have to see it with their eyes. For that to be possible it would have to have been reasonably close to Earth. Wouldn't then it's gravitational pull caused havoc to the Earth.

[@jazzyladyjae7669]

Johanna Petroff Exactly! ... The ancient Sumerians saw it, they called it Nibiru. It can be seen on Sumerian hieroglyph text ... So if they seen it, then drew it on hieroglyph without a powerful expensive instrument🔭 then surely, you'd think, NASA with all its modern technology can see it/identity it 🧐🤷🏾‍♀️

[@johannapetroff8459]

@@jazzyladyjae7669 , perhaps in the time of the Summarians Nibiru was in orbit close to Earth. 5,000 years later Nibiru must be far out in space. Perhaps out if sight of our telescopes and space prob. I do hope they find it in my lifetime.

[@scottrice370]

This ninth planet has been imagined as several things. One a super earth, maybe ten times the size of the earth. Next another gas giant, a planet like Neptune. The last is possibly a Brown dwarf , this considered the most unlikely. Most people believe a Brown dwarf would already have been spotted by its heat signature. A Brown dwarf is a star just not quite massive enough to light but they do give off a good deal of heat that would have probably been spotted. It gives off enough heat to have a Goldilocks zone, but it would be much closer than the Sun's to the Brown dwarf .

[@sanjuansteve]

It always amazes me that we think we know quite a bit about other galaxies and other solar systems in our galaxy, yet we know so little about our own solar system...

[@ianmeade7441]

Well we have a lot of data for other solar systems and galaxies, but for overall comprehension and understanding we definetley know more about home

[@JoelKiptoo]

True Steve. The inner part of our solar system between the sun and earth might also have surprises for us especially since we assume that planets follow a certain orbit pattern. It may be possible that we have other planets going around the sun in wierd fashions and orbits that we can miss.

[@AdamJDe]

@@JoelKiptoo No.

[@scott3462]

A few years ago they found a new frog in the Bronx in New York City

[@Waga20]

And about 70% of the land below sea level is still a mystery

[@tomkelly8827]

According to our most ancient writings from Sumeria, the planet is not on the same orbital plane as us and it does have an elliptical orbit, not circular. They call it Niburu. Zacharia Sitchin has written extensively on this topic. The Lost book of Enki and The 12th planet are really interesting reads, if you are interested in what happened before before

[@MaterLacrymarum]

Wait, did you just write: The LOST book on Enki and the 12th planet are an interesting read? Seriously? 😆

[@goldengun9970]

@franklin Jablonsky sumerians counted pluto as a planet. That is right, like 6,000 years ago they knew about all the planets we know about

[@labandonaldhock80]

Sitchin was not wrong, Nasa has planet x its behind the sun, they got a shot of it during an eclipse not too long ago. It was published. It was in the 5 oclock position in the pic

[@omarthedeadaziz6756]

If they do dicover it can they please name it Nibiru, in honor & respect to the people we all laughed at

[@kensolch9885]

LOLOLOLOL.

[@fiftyplus2077]

laughed at indeed.

[@theradgegadgie6352]

I've been "praying" for this for since this anomaly was discovered, but it'll probably be called Persephone instead.

[@1420MHZ]

@Migfra Danmark Science is yet another man-made institution seeking preeminence

[@dp0813]

Lol that's EXACTLY why i came to the comments section. Couldn't remember the name of the planet that our ancestors allegedly already knew about. If the information about Nibiru coincides with what scientists discover as a 9th planet, we really need to take another look at how we judge those ancient clay tablets!

[@SpaceAce1993]

I can’t wait till we find planet 9, it’s probably really big, and it might just be a super earth, I doubt it’s a gas giant.

[@dr.sudhakarpowar2916]

Thoroughly enjoyed...V nice & beautiful way to explain planetary science. Unfortunately many negative comments ( not on content of his talk ) but on style...I'd advise these "wise " ppl who are so upset about the "style" part ...if ur looking for an entertainment please log on to " spaghetti westerns channel" ..TEDx isn't ur cuppa ...ur at wrong place mates....

[@MrJdsenior]

WHAT AN INSTRUMENT. Good luck on your search, guys. I suspect there may be MANY more planets out there if you go far enough, maybe Oort cloud inward to Kuiper objects. I hope you find a big one or three. Something like a brown dwarf would be really cool! Who knows, 'til you look. ;-)

[@LuisAldamiz]

Thank you Dr. Sako and TED for updating the public on how the search for Planet Nine is ongoing. I also want to state that Mike Brown is not just a great astronomer, who has found many more planets (even if so far they are all "dwarves") than all Humankind together in our whole history, but also a very kind and approachable scientist. He's much more loved than Dr. Sako suspects (it helps here that the "sniff, Pluto is a planet!" crowd is already quite dispersed and calmed down, it took almost two decades but they're finally maturing).

[@LuisAldamiz]

PS- Well, a few aren't it seems. *sniff*

[@tommykarrick9130]

I find it amazing that we can create high definition images of galaxies millions of light years away and predict what they’re made of and where they’ll be in a billion years and we have difficulty finding planets in our own solar system, it really tells you a lot about how crowded with stars and galaxies our sky really is

[@dannyteebone9233]

Well stars are huge and light emitting we see with our eyes, where planets don’t emit light but reflect. Planets further out in our galaxy are not illuminated as well by our sun. Can you read a book with a candle 50 feet away from you?

[@MonstaMunch101]

And this is why I rage every time someone mentions the "Fermi Paradox". It isn't a paradox, we're just so primitive we aren't even sure how many planets there are in our solar system, let alone what else is out there.

[@vaughanvanderstarren832]

Presumably, we should be able to see astroscale engineering projects such as Dyson spheres.

[@vaughanvanderstarren832]

Jordan Kirklan, who, what, and why?

[@ramaraksha01]

Huh? Thats not the paradox. Its not about us detecting a far away civilization but if we in say in another 1000years will be able to colonize the galaxy, why havent others already done it? Easy to find evidence of that

[@MrDgmiller]

@@ramaraksha01 ....wut?

[@ramaraksha01]

@@MrDgmiller Basically the question was why we haven't detected advanced civilizations and the answer by Monsta was that we are not advanced enough - what I was saying was that it is like tribals living in the jungle might not be advanced but they can see the lights of the big city, airplanes flying overhead and can deduce that advanced civilization exists on the planet Same way if we assume that there are advanced civilizations that can travel great distances, they would have colonized the galaxy by now and so the galaxy would be humming with activity - sort of like the future depicted in Star Wars So, how come we have detected none of that even with our "primitive" tools?

[@AvyScottandFlower]

Great talk but somebody give this guy a water bottle!

[@Jackmerius_Tacktheritrix5733]

AvyScottandFlower Or a Xanax

[@tokyomike8783]

Or, at least, a modicum of respect, for his achievements and his contributions to science at Caltech. Thank you.

[@AvyScottandFlower]

I think he needed water more at that moment.

[@bountyhuntermk2520]

Tokyo Mike shut your noise you tart

[@neschaldaocharan9672]

Lmfao give him an oreo n milk

[@rwy8777]

Thank you for a science based explanation of a possible 9th planet.

[@tomlyle4991]

Such a great TED TALK! He made me feel like some day I might be able to give MY talk (about what, I’m not sure yet) but he seemed so uncomfortable up on stage - if I can be only half as uncomfortable I’ll be okay!!! Still, I want to search for the follow up to this although I don’t think I have to cause this would be big news. A real ninth planet! (But in my mind PLUTO is still the ninth planet!)! Great TED talk. Thank you!

[@polite_as_fuck]

RIP Pluto (1930-2006)

[@rocket9244]

some people discount our 9th planet, Pluto. but 99% of the world knows it was, is and always will be our 9th planet..

[@garychristenson6370]

I don't remember the public voting to let some astronomer decide whether or not Pluto is a "planet". Is NOTHING sacred anymore?

[@benbuckley2540]

@@rocket9244 Who are we to say our planet's ? We call Earth home an have destroyed this one

[@telioty]

Pluto shouldn't be a planet; it is a kuiper belt object...

[@jc.1191]

Was my favorite planet as a kid

[@tokyomike8783]

めちゃ格好いいビデオお疲れさまでした。 勉強いたしました。

[@mikesteel3634]

Tokyo Mike you make a good point

[@hsvenforcer]

Great talk!!

[@willwilders1028]

Very well presented

[@simjo59]

Is it possible that instead of a Planet Nine with a mass of 10 times more than Earth, there are instead several bodies yet to be discovered that collectively have that mass?

[@MSulaimanAwful]

Oooooo interesting. Definitely possible

[@anthonyallencabrera]

Ancient civilizations claim we have 12 planets orbiting the sun. I would imagine one of the planets hit earth. Another is responsible for the astroid belt.. Niburu or planet 9 if found has been written on ancient text to have a 3600 year cycle around the sun on a different axis then the traditional 8 planets. A similar axis to the small dwarf planets theyre just now finding on the edge of the solar system.. So i believe there are 2 planets that have a larger orbit on a different plane still orbiting our sun.

[@Egregius]

@John, actually yes, if I'm to believe the wikipedia page for 'Planet Nine'. Check under alternative hypotheses.

[@Leo-vp8ck]

who came here after seeing Veritasium's video about planet9?

[@rodneyteperman]

me

[@matthewstorer8236]

Bingo

[@starlingsmuchiri7527]

I did

[@IgnacioGutt]

Not me, I watched this one first last year.

[@eyezak_m]

Bro predictable

[@thekrustykrabrestaurant]

Excellent, Masao Sako! 😀😀😀

[@powermetaladdict]

Lol him: "hello everyone" My brain: "this is yooour daily dose of internet"

[@shadowdance4666]

Phew! They have their work cut out for themselves. That’s a lot of space especially with an object that’s around 250-1250 astronautical units away. Just a hunch but I would look to the far end

[@zakgwynne4923]

JUSTICE FOR PLUTO

[@heatherhill3]

Amazing how you got the best picture of NINE

[@Fernando-fr5cu]

A solar system with 9 planets just sounds much better. The number 9 is the number of UNITY.

[@RandyJames22]

So will humanity find Planet Nine or MH370 first??

[@saladpie3871]

Randy James No one cares about that plane now...

[@RandyJames22]

I care, as do _millions_ of others.

[@saladpie3871]

Randy James Come on man its been 4 years right ? so lets move on that one ...

[@fedupbrown6018]

planet 9 is here and nasa knows it

[@that_pac123]

fedup brown 😂😂😂

[@shinnosuke1782]

Dr.Sako : The Earth goes around the Sun Flat Earthers : Yo wtf, THE SUN goes around the EARTH!

[@MrHIENRICHHIMMLER]

Man i cant breath just by listening to him speak ( breaking up , breaking up ) God

[@jrjubach]

Interesting to learn how they go about searching for it. I always wondered. So much data tho. I hope they find Nibiru.

[@justinsimpson2335]

Maybe planet 9 is not very reflective and very cold so you can't see it directly with telescopes easily.

[@wellardbr]

@justin simpson, at last someone makes the remark that matters. "How reflective". It's called albedo.

[@dannyteebone9233]

Infrared and concave lense

[@Ericwvb2]

Lord John Whorfin: "Where are we going?" The Red Lectroids: "Planet Ten!" Lord John Whorfin: "When?" The Red Lectroids: "Real soon!"

[@lou4tea]

Oh btw brilliant video I enjoyed watching this thank you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[@nicklawton4166]

The into to this is amazing

[@nuttskippy6293]

NASA: Discovers alot of stars, planets and even got a picture of a blackhole out of the Solar System Planet Nine: am i a joke to you?

[@Emucratic]

The thing is the telescopes we have are booked for other research. We can't just have all telescopes start looking for it unfortunately. The hardest part is not even imaging. The reason why it takes long is because human beings need to sift through all the data to find it. The more people we have to help the faster it would be. If everyone who is interested in Planet Nine actually sat down and helped looking for it, we would have found it.

[@donal935]

Nada didnt take a picture of a blackhole in our solar system.

[@levgtz8158]

@@Emucratic SETI has done a supercomputing network in order to find EI. The I suppose scientists searching for Planet 9 are not as capable or creative.

[@ramaraksha01]

@@levgtz8158 harder to find planets they dont give off light remember? Finding a dark object in deep dark space - not that easy

[@levgtz8158]

@@ramaraksha01 I nerver forget that, maybe you didn't read and you didn't know what SETI is. You don't need eyes, just radio-telescopes and supercomputers.

[@baxtar1963]

Ancient Sumerian‘s have a story about another planet 3 times larger than earth. It orbits opposite all the other planets.

[@MaterLacrymarum]

Stories are not evidence.

[@jc.1191]

@@MaterLacrymarum they can be interesting tho

[@nathanlewis42]

JG Ballard and here I thought you were dead. You didn’t look well at all when you signed my coy of one of your books.

[@goldengun9970]

@@MaterLacrymarum they also knew about all the planets we know about now. They knew theic correct sizes and distances. That is some evidence

[@JJ33438]

wow. its out there someplace!

[@newworlddisorder156]

Its here and we're about to see it

[@cruzcam]

Once they find "Planet 9" it would be fun to see the naming process.

[@elliotknight99]

cruzcam Planety McPlanetface

[@LuisAldamiz]

It should be called Gaia following the already used hierarchy of the Hesiodic Cosmogony, however Gaia is supposed to be Mother Earth, what leaves us with a limited amount of possibilities. They'll find something cool I'm sure: the naming of Eris was a true blast!

[@that_pac123]

Luis Aldamiz They use alot of gods from Polynesian religions, like Make Make and Haumea, but those are extremely small objects, so idk if they’d use the same naming scheme for a new planet. But I guess that the naming would also have to do with the features of the planet, so maybe since it’s so far out we could call it something to do with it’s distance, loneliness, & isolation. Or perhaps even something to do with it’s size and gravitational influence. It’s location at the very fringe of the solar system would make Pluto a great name if it weren’t already taken, at gatekeeper and such, but yeah, idk, I’m no expert on religions/mythology so, I can’t really supply a good name or story character to use for a name, but I’d like to see one named after a non-Roman/Greek god, like another ancient religion perhaps, or something else unrelated that stands out, yet stays true to the planet’s features.

[@LA-MJ]

There's really one name it should take, Krypton.

[@Darkerplayer]

Mike Brown had to promise his daughter to name a planet "Pluto" should he discover one - to make Pluto a planet again.

[@JoeCool90]

Nbiru is coming and bringing the Anunnaki back.

[@narendraparmar1631]

Good one sir😃

[@jonerrijuseppi6127]

Thanks...

[@auraxfire]

Make Pluto great again!

[@chunkylover469]

Just heard tonight they might just might be doing that

[@jahenders]

There's talk, but their logic is flawed -- just based on word usage

[@vkhutal]

Most Funny :)

[@fredriksvensson6030]

Pluto is now the largest of the dwarf-planets. Before it was the runt of the litter.

[@bell16]

Fredrik Svensson I thought Eris was?

[@duanevantuinen6846]

you need to read the book by Zecharia Sitchen . The Twelfth Planet

[@jeanpierrefrenchie]

AWESOME EXPLANATION.>>

[@ng-marc]

Respectfully, as I understand it, is it not important to look in all areas of the sky to determine if objects are also in other regions. I believe planet 9 exists. That said, try more that one direction.

[@joed1122]

Very well spoken man

[@dvdert6]

I feel like Pluto is being bullied by astronomers.

[@MoneyTeamBob]

Russia is bigger than pluto

[@rocket9244]

some people discount our 9th planet, Pluto. but 99% of the world knows it was, is and always will be our 9th planet..

[@72NADEREH]

I feel bad for pluto

[@72NADEREH]

And it's a planet

[@Sirin2099]

If Pluto is a planet than the others like Ceres and Eris should be planets too.

[@jmcclain8237]

Lots of great information but I feel bad for this fella because he's so nervous. Then again, he did get through it.

[@dustinperez6577]

mind blown

[@audreywestholtz5367]

Do not believe this guy, he knows exactly where planet X is!!!!!

[@GMVTV]

@@sadasasdas8999 well, i felt better knowing we are so good at finding and yet we can't find it yet, but then, i started to wonder why he looks so nervous, a genius like that It's like he's lying to us. Lying makes even genius people nervous

[@GMVTV]

@@sadasasdas8999 and i remember freaking Neil Armstrong. Same thing. Same attitude. Same lies.

[@joesotoneuromonitoring6123]

So unimaginative. The entire solar system including planet x was depicted by the sumarians thousands of years ago.

[@MelloBlend]

I see 6 orbits that look like they are converging in our solar system. If we can plot those 6 orbits and they all meet what seems like our system, why can't you predict the location of Planet Nine like you did with Uranus and Neptune? I think it's our solar system itself creating a lensing effect if you will. Our system is unique in that there are 9 planets (I will count Pluto to illustrate my theory) and these elliptical orbits are all in different timings around the sun. As a system, what does that do to gravity itself on other systems around ours? I asked my astronomy teacher way back in high school, what would be the implications of some object in the universe NOT MOVING? He couldn't fathom that. In other words, all things must be in motion or else and gravity is a dynamic force that never rests. So, could it be as a system (9 planets), these objects with their elliptical orbits passing through our solar system along with the Sun as center mass is causing this phenomenon?

[@dustinperez6577]

its way further out than you think its just has a perfect electromagnetic alignment with our system. it could be close though it has the potential to go as far out as it wants . its alive

[@xxcobraxx3863]

We all know that the sky moves above us. Oh wait only a few know the truth!

[@alfredm.s.6396]

The legend says that the 9th planet is just the scientists who wants pluto back in the solar system.

[@troyfowler4869]

More videos keep it up

[@kerrylouise9502]

Beautiful :) קרי

[@Eric-tq3vn]

Really though, how did ancient civilizations know about this planet when we're just now discovering it?

[@GMVTV]

Because people from that planet came to us twelve thousands years ago, created us, and gave us that knowledge

[@MikeSmith-cl4ix]

It's because the Anunnaki are using some type of shielding device so we can't see it coming.

[@coreynorris9200]

That makes sense

[@jameszeallor2735]

The annunaki don't run nibiru which is a galactic ship during this galactic cycle.The peladians do.Surely they must be involved in operating the ship still but it sounds like these frequencies are in the peladian range.

[@jc.1191]

Shoulda put on my tinfoil hat before reading the comments.

[@awsumguy-bh9pz]

Planet 9 probably exists but its probably at a point in it's orbit where it is too far away for even the most beefy telescopes to be able to find it so sadly it will probably be a while before the planet shows itself.

[@shivasirons6159]

You know how to measure intelligence? The ability to explain something. Simply that! If you can explain something clearly you,re smart, if you can't you're not.

[@kenantahir]

oh wow this guy is soooooooooo nervous you can tell easily by his voice

[@WaaDoku]

Yeah, was thinking the same. And he won numerous Teaching awards? Kinda skeptical about that.

[@alingkinai7520]

It's not his regular audience.

[@GMVTV]

@@WaaDoku because he must lies, the lie we're all know, they found it, and they cannot talk about it, or reveal it's existence. Because confirming it, would be confirming the Apocalypse

[@truthhurts467]

Notice how he starts stuttering when he mentions we haven't found planet nine. But they have I've been tracking it for years now song that says scientist have stepped out to release the data and give timelines

[@eurovision50]

I know that of course back then, a desk-sized telescope was nothing to scoff at, but nonetheless imagine the feeling of being the first person to discover a planet and having done it with a tiny telescope on your desk that could nowadays be bought for about $50 at Costco.

[@georgemurr647]

nice

[@WeaveDreamer]

What if"like a chameleon" the planet doesn't want to be found could the technology to cloak an entire planet already exists

[@doomingual6432]

"I wouldnt be here if I found it" ha just like Robert Harrington

[@d5uncr]

Except Dr Harrington didn't find any object. Similarly to Batygin and Brown he posted a theory, which eventually turned out to be incorrect.

[@CW2TRH]

The only true comment I have read here. He was lying through his teeth and frightened that he might slip and go off script.

[@mikebecerramusic]

Scattered Disc region is where the object was located along with Sedna , Eris and other TNO’s.

[@m_sedziwoj]

One question I want to ask is, if they looking only at bright spot, or at dark too? because maybe this planet is unique and "consume" light. BTW it wasn't disturbance in Uranus orbit not only lead to Neptune, but it was pointed that Neptune is too small to make such change, so they search more, and found Pluton, but it was still to small, but for some reason they stop searching, even orbits Uranus and Neptune are not as they should be.

[@sertevren]

Can we detect a nuclear explosion (500 megatons for example) beyond the Kuiper belt? And if we can, is it possible that this hypothetical explosion can work as a camera flash light(with multiple wave lenght) so we can detect reflections of dark objects like Planet 9?

[@Darkerplayer]

We would probably be able to see a very small burst of light from that explosion. The detectors for GRBs would pick it up. Although it might just be dismissed as background noise. As for using it as a flash: It would be like lighting a match on an open field hoping to see ants on the floor a mile away. Although you will have more success with that than with that bomb. Not to mention the problems with manufacturing and transporting a bomb of that size into space and into a remotely close position to Planet Nine. It would take decades and cost billions to do that. Not to mention the political difficulties (Try to get funding and permission for a 500 MT bomb that will solely be used to light up space). Meanwhile a wide field infrared telescope might find it in a week, and the pessimistic estimate of when we have scanned the entire area sufficiently to prove or disprove the theory is ca. 2020.

[@ydin77]

bekir evren sertel ... Like a fart in darkness!

[@stephenh5944]

I actually have read about proposals to use nuclear bombs as "flashbulbs" to help us detect asteroids. The bombs would be detonated on the far side of the sun so the EMP doesn't affect the earth.

[@thecatnaper1]

Well you must not be looking in the right place since I have a picture I took of two suns

[@freenational]

That is one heck of a telescope.

[@georgew.5639]

We already found planet nine. It’s Pluto. We found it because it perturbed the orbital motion of the other outer planets. We have now seen it up close and it even looks like a planet. It has a moon like a planet.

[@pauldocherty6271]

Poor Pluto. What did it do to deserve demotion?

[@lPhoenixGloryl]

I heard a lecture from the guy who demoted Pluto. It's not what Pluto did, it's that if we want to keep Pluto as a planet and keep our definition of "planet" to include Pluto, then we actually have 13 planets now... not simply 9.

[@public.public]

Pluto IS a planet because WE say so.

[@furryface1057]

you gotta study the Aether to know about the Universe , good luck , it's like studying the existence of nothing to find out about the existence of something

[@SanJo408..]

Yes 3:35 exactly thank you ever since elementary school I remember Pluto being a PLANET then in high school I would always argue with my teachers they would say it’s a dwarf planet I would be so bothered

[@willjeffreys5517]

Poor Pluto...

[@vmwindustries]

Why don't they ever get a water brake?

[@RMYD002]

vmwindustries i thought i was the only one who noticed his mouth was dry lol

[@notmadeofpeople4935]

Air brakes work better. So do water breaks. See what I did there?

[@vmwindustries]

Lol

[@Frezzed]

Mura Masa - Miss You

[@jiminverness]

Perhaps you could refer to it as the 9th major planet, or Major Planet Nine - if Mercury counts as a major planet (being smaller than Ganymede and Titan). Interesting that DeeDee is only about 100km larger than Ceres.

[@Justin_80]

The 9th planet is Pluto!

[@abhig2359]

but it isn't

[@serenerhapsody]

I clicked because he is cute :)

[@ltk4765]

bro

[@serenerhapsody]

@@ltk4765 bro ;)

[@CVernRock]

Why not design and launch a Hubble type telescope and put in orbit around the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune? Thus putting our observing distance/power that much closer to objects that may orbit beyond our current sphere of observation?

[@mattpotter8725]

I would guess it is all down to expense and the risk of sending it all that way and it not working. The Hubble Space Telescope was put into Earth orbit at great expense and when it got into orbit it was found that the mirrors hadn't been created to focus the light correctly and the images were blurry. Just imagine doing this with a telescope and sending it all the way past Neptune and then this happened? It would take ten years or more to get there and then anything could go wrong that won't be fixable. I understand that the James Webb Telescope, which will be put at the L2 Lagrange point of Earth's orbit won't be fixable, but that won't have the risk of having to travel so far or take so long to get to where it can start observing. I would also imagine that to bid for the money to be spent on the project it requires the professor or scientist heading the team has to put forward a plan. If it takes 10+ years to get to where it starts observing then many of the team will have retired or moved onto other projects. Also in the intermediate period future advances in technology might make sending a telescope so far redundant so is it worth all the money. We may also develop faster ways to send the spacecraft and be able to overtake any spacecraft sent now. I think if you really couldn't do the research cheaper and nearer or the project was so important it would be considered, but finding planet 9 just isn't that important and we don't want to spend as much money or the length of time that sending a spacecraft nearer would be. One final thought is that whilst you may think sending a telescope to Neptune to search for planet 9 if the planet is round the other side of the sun for the next few thousand years sending it all that way would actually send it further away from planet 9 and not closer at all. The problem is that we don't know where it is, or where in the orbit it is, although we have some ideas. Without knowing where it is would mean sending a telescope out that far wouldn't be any better than looking for it from the vicinity of the Earth.

[@chrisschembari2486]

@@mattpotter8725 exactly. I was just going to answer +DarthRock's question with the fact that sending a telescope that far away doesn't give you any advantage over sending it out to space much closer to the Earth, and at far greater expense. Even a mediocre scope will also be able to image far-away objects in and out of our galaxy, not just in our solar system, so the difference in distance between near-Earth space and trans-Neptune space is really insignificant. You put it much better and gave it more detail than I would have.

[@paulthomasshepherd5156]

On 4,000 year old cuneiform tablets, available in museums today are the writings and descriptions of all the planets in our galaxy, their locations, atmospheres, and orbits, including Pluto which we only discovered in 1930. Included is Nibiru. Expand your research.

[@TusharBooks]

Has anyone read Zecharia Stchin biok 12th planet?

[@donnagegeny2019]

Tushar Gundev I read it and it's quite interesting it was years ago I'm going to have to read it again to refresh my memory. He said when this planet does eventually come into our orbit it will be detrimental to us.

[@immortalswif1068]

ANUNNAKI CAME FROM ABOVE....

[@furryface1057]

1/2 way through the video he starts to get to it

[@SavioScott]

Different objects revolving around the sun and meeting in one place looks to me like a collision and the objects are just remnants of that collision.

[@DJDrinks]

someone get this man a glass of water.