¿Un nuevo planeta? que putada para los astrólogos

[Orubatosu]

Pues parece que si. De momento sin confirmar, pero parece que si.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system

The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system's infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.

The claim is the strongest yet in the centuries-long search for a "Planet X" beyond Neptune. The quest has been plagued by far-fetched claims and even outright quackery. But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations. "If you say, 'We have evidence for Planet X,' almost any astronomer will say, 'This again? These guys are clearly crazy.' I would, too," Brown says. "Why is this different? This is different because this time we're right."

Outside scientists say their calculations stack up and express a mixture of caution and excitement about the result. "I could not imagine a bigger deal if—and of course that's a boldface 'if'—if it turns out to be right," says Gregory Laughlin, a planetary scientist at the University of California (UC), Santa Cruz. "What's thrilling about it is [the planet] is detectable."

Batygin and Brown inferred its presence from the peculiar clustering of six previously known objects that orbit beyond Neptune. They say there's only a 0.007% chance, or about one in 15,000, that the clustering could be a coincidence. Instead, they say, a planet with the mass of 10 Earths has shepherded the six objects into their strange elliptical orbits, tilted out of the plane of the solar system.

The orbit of the inferred planet is similarly tilted, as well as stretched to distances that will explode previous conceptions of the solar system. Its closest approach to the sun is seven times farther than Neptune, or 200 astronomical units (AUs). (An AU is the distance between Earth and the sun, about 150 million kilometers.) And Planet X could roam as far as 600 to 1200 AU, well beyond the Kuiper belt, the region of small icy worlds that begins at Neptune's edge about 30 AU.

Supongo que se entiende, para los que no, mediante simulación por ordenador de órbitas intentan entender las irregularidades en las órbitas de planetas y otros objetos (que no llamaré planetas por ser demasiado pequeños) que no tienen por ahora explicación, y la mas probable parece ser la existencia de un planeta "gordo" con una masa 10 veces superior a la de la tierra (algunos dicen del tamaño de Neptuno, aunque este en realidad tenga 17 veces la masa de la Tierra) y ahora la "putadita", y es que se estima que estaría entre 600 y 1200 AU (unidades astronómicas. Unos 150 millones de kilómetros. sacar la cuenta). Eso lo pone mas allá incluso del cinturón de Kuiper. Se calcula que tardaría unos 11.500 años en completar una órbita.

Todo esto obviamente sobre el papel, ahora se pondrán a buscar, a ver si encuentran algo perdido por ahí fuera

A ver como apañan los astrólogos ahora las cosas para que les salgan las cuentas 

[simorg]

La noticia ha sido difundida también por los canales de TV en algunos telediarios.

Veremos en que queda.


PD. Yá dieron pataditas a las Cartas Astrales, cuando "degradadaron" a Plutón....


Saludos.