Astronomy / Space Sol System: Planet 9 was found!!

[LaPalma75]

Dear David Braben, dear Frontiert Team, dear Commanders, on the nature online magazin i read about a new planet in our solarsystem where scientists found it.
read this: http://www.nature.com/news/evidence-grows-for-giant-planet-on-fringes-of-solar-system-1.19182

And the Dev team could expand the Sol System in Elite right?

 

[Sentenza]

Planet Nine from Outer Space?

 

[Windscreen Smudge]

Until it's visually confirmed there's no need to edit anything.

 

[GormDeGamle]

(...) where scientists found it (...)

I just read this (BTW quite interesting) article and to my understanding noone has found it by now...

 

[Haleks]

That planet would be beyond the Kuiper Belt; correct me if I'm wrong but the Kuiper belt has been "forgotten" in ED?

 

[N6MAA10816]

Dear David Braben, dear Frontiert Team, dear Commanders, on the nature online magazin i read about a new planet in our solarsystem where scientists found it.
read this: http://www.nature.com/news/evidence-grows-for-giant-planet-on-fringes-of-solar-system-1.19182

And the Dev team could expand the Sol System in Elite right?

Great find LaPalma75 and +Rep for that!
Now we can keep an eye on 'Nibiru' in the Galaxy map without relying on all the nutters on the 'Interweb'! Tidy!

 

[Surfinjo]

That planet would be beyond the Kuiper Belt; correct me if I'm wrong but the Kuiper belt has been "forgotten" in ED?

Think they left out quite a lot, generally because no-one is really sure it's there.

 

[Bartizan]

Yea, it's called Pluto.

 

[LaPalma75]

That planet would be beyond the Kuiper Belt; correct me if I'm wrong but the Kuiper belt has been "forgotten" in ED?

Not forget they put the kuiper belt between Mars and Jupiter thats wrong the belt must be after Neptune and they did forget the oort cloud and after the kuiper belt the iceplanet who has 10 times more mass like the earth is after the kuiper belt.

 

[Mysturji]

Not forget they put the kuiper belt between Mars and Jupiter thats wrong the belt must be after Neptune and they did forget the oort cloud and after the kuiper belt the iceplanet who has 10 times more mass like the earth is after the kuiper belt.

That's the asteroid belt. The Kuiper belt is beyond Neptune. Pluto skirts the fringes of it.

 

[Bartizan]

Not forget they put the kuiper belt between Mars and Jupiter thats wrong the belt must be after Neptune and they did forget the oort cloud and after the kuiper belt the iceplanet who has 10 times more mass like the earth is after the kuiper belt.

I don't see where they put the Kuiper between Mars and Jupiter in the game. That is just the asteroid belt that is suppose to be there. The Kuiper being beyond Pluto (our 9th planet, not budging on accepting it as a Kuiper object) followed by the Oort that is nothing more than a theory right now anyways.

 

[LaPalma75]

And i had written to the great founder and CEO Mister, David Braben on his twitter account but he dont answers me thats makes me realy unhappy!!!!

 

[James Razor]

Guys, Wikipedia is more up to date in such matters and normaly pretty Ok for astronomical stuff if u just want a general overview:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eris_(dwarf_planet)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scattered_disc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

Edit:
Btw.: The Sol System is missing a hell lot of stuff. Not only the entire Kuiper Belt, but also the Asteroids at the Lagrange Points around Jupiter (Jupiter Trojans) and some of the other Planets, stuff like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur_(minor_planet) and a lot of know other Objects (Asteroids, Comets and similiar small bodies).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planet

Edit 2: Not to mention this little beauty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)

 

[Patrick_68000]

It is like for the Thargoids, everybody knows that they are here, but nobody saw them

 

[Enderby]

This is most exciting news.

 

[Wescott]

Think they left out quite a lot, generally because no-one is really sure it's there.

I bet its waiting in the wings to be switched on as soon as it is though, that way we can be the first sim to have it live

 

[JeffRyan]

Like I said in the other thread, screenshot or it didn't happen.

 

[metatheurgist]

This is most exciting news.

It's interesting, I dunno about exciting. When they can point a telescope at it and say - "Yep, it's there!" then it gets a bit more exciting. But it's still so far way it's unlikely we'll ever send a probe out there in any reasonable amount of time. What's more worrying is that there's a roughly 26K year extinction cycle on earth and now we think there's a planet with a 20K orbit floating around.

 

[Patrick_68000]

However the distance to the sun is 200 astronomical units. It must be cold over there

 

[Winterwalker]

Of course Planet X has been one of those internet rumours for years, but it's exciting how close these scientists are getting, with an estimated size and orbital period, and now becoming (statistically speaking) almost likely; A group of six objects indicate the planet's presence.

With a 0.007% chance that the clustering of the six objects is coincidental, this gives the planet claim a statistical significance of 3.8 sigma—beyond the 3-sigma threshold typically required to be taken seriously, but short of the 5 sigma "forget it" range.

If the Subaru Telescope is looking here (below) but with a LONG orbital period (15,000 years) and with a swathe of the predicted orbit being omitted, is it time to retask Voyager 1? And if not yet, when?

Finding this planet by parallax shift (a la Elite Dangerous Basic Discovery Scanner) would be too cool!

Spoiler

So I say, RE-TASK VOYAGER 1
if they've got any sense people will be looking at pale blue dot pics as we speak!