Planet Hiding In Our Solar System Avoids Detection For Decades

With the power of the LSST camera behind them, Batygin and Brown’s team believes that there is a high likelihood that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory should be able to find Planet X within a year or two, proving its existence once and for all. This is all dependent on where Planet X is currently located while making its massive orbit around the Sun.

Thanks to its projected orbit that is 20 times greater than Neptune’s orbit, Planet X may prove to be challenging to locate. But Brown believes that finding the possible planet is worth it. “Until there’s a better explanation for all these phenomena, I still think Planet Nine is probably real,” Brown says.

Source: arXiv