Sol IX

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People are calling this Planet Nine.

Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384.../2/22/meta

To date, the distinctive orbital alignment observed within the scattered disk population of the Kuiper Belt remains largely unexplained. Accordingly, the primary purpose of this study has been to identify a physical mechanism that can generate and maintain the peculiar clustering of orbital elements in the remote outskirts of the solar system. Here, we have proposed that the process of resonant coupling with a distant, planetary mass companion can explain the available data, and have outlined an observational test that can validate or refute our hypothesis.