The 9th planet of the solar system is ... stolen goods?

A new hypothesis is set about the X planet and it's very interesting.

As reported, people are very close to finding Planet X - the mysterious planet located at the edge of the solar system.

However, we still cannot prove 100% of its position. Just knowing that there is a planet with a mass of dozens of Earth is hiding somewhere on the edge of the solar system. It is so far away that it will take about 10,000 years for a spin cycle.

Planet X.

However, a new study has revealed a somewhat shocking hypothesis about X. Accordingly, X is actually a planet outside the solar system , belonging to another star system, but has been exposed to their Sun. I took it.

According to Alexander Mustill - astronomer at Lund University (Sweden): "This may sound paradoxical, but it is clear that people often spend a lot of time to find the right planets outside the solar system. We have hundreds, thousands of light years, while there is such a planet right next to us. "

Earlier, X's hypothesis was that Mike Brown himself, who had contributed to "wiping out" Pluto from the solar system - brought it. Brown said X is about 149 billion km away - about 75 times the distance from Pluto.

According to the new hypothesis, X is about 149 billion km away - which is 75 times the distance to Pluto.

However, Brown said: " The problem is how can a planet be formed in that area? Because the rest of the solar system is clearly very close together, while the distance between Pluto and X is too big, and the planet has a very large mass - 10 times the Earth.

So they hypothesized that X actually belonged to another star, and it's not clear why our Sun naturally " got it " around 4.5 billion years ago.

With such a hypothesis, Mustill tried to run some simulated models of collisions between the solar system and some other star systems - planets. They found that with a star system with a large orbit of planets, the possibility of being robbed by the Sun is up to 50%.

Basically, the ratio of X to the outer solar system falls only between . 0.1% - 2%.

This number is too big, so big that it is impossible. However, according to study participant Shannon Hall: "This is a very good rate, but it is reduced to another planet. That is, this model is just what the Sun captured is an identical planet. X ". So basically, the ratio of X to the extrasolar planet falls only between . 0.1% - 2%.

It sounds low, but Mustill thinks this ratio is not absolute, and it is even 300 times larger than X's survival rate on the first day of the hypothesis. So nothing is impossible.

The study is published in the Royal Astronomical Society magazine.