Planet 9 from Outer Space

First the Earth was described as round. Then it was thought to be flat. But evidence overturned that. Number of deaths from falling off the edge of the Earth since = zero.

Around that time, it was also thought that all celestial objects revolved around the Earth. The known universe was basically our solar system. But Copernicus changed everything with the hypothesis that Earth and other objects revolved around the Sun. He published his work after waiting until he was on his death bed to avoid being punished by the Church, which was the educational establishment and authority at the time. They liked to make the rules. Science began underground, out of the view of the Church, and for good reason. And then Galileo changed everything. Using the newly invented telescope, he observed moons orbiting Jupiter, confirming Copernicus’ postulation. To bad he was imprisoned for it.

After Galileo, more people looked to the skies and began discovering even more. Huygens discovered Saturn less than 50 years later. But it would be another century and a quarter before Herschel discovered the next planet, Uranus. Nearly two centuries after Galileo’s discoveries, Neptune was discovered. Almost another century later, Pluto was discovered. The ninth planet! But poor little Pluto was downgraded to a dwarf planet just this century. At this time we were starting to discover more and more dwarf planets out in the outer reaches of the solar system. And we’re still discovering more!

Around the time that Uranus was discovered (mid-1800s), scientists thought that there was something else out there beyond the ice giants. Another one. By studying the fluctuations of orbits, scientists could predict planets and moons. Thus, Planet X, the tenth planet was hypothesized. It was a giant, 4-8 times the size of Earth, and had an eccentric orbit. And then the possible occurrence of a giant planet orbiting the sun with an elliptical path was a reality. What did this mean to Earth? It was thought to have caused large-scale phenomena in cycles thought to coincide with close encounters with Planet X (like the biblical flooding and parting of the Red Sea). But was this real? I’ve even read about alien civilizations that supposedly live on Planet X. And there’s doomsday prophecies. Seems like everything predicts the end for those who choose to see that. I try to be objective though. I researched Planet X a few years ago, and I found that there was no Planet X. NASA said it didn’t exist.

Today, things changed. Just like that. We overturned the assumptions of the flat Earth and objects orbiting us with overwhelming evidence, and now this planet has just become a reality. Caltech scientists announced that they have found indirect evidence of an icy giant planet beyond Pluto with an eccentric orbit. Now the Planet X communities are going crazy! But since Pluto was denounced as a planet earlier this century, this is being called Planet Nine.