Evidence of planetary mass object in Kuiper Belt
In new research to be published in the Astronomical Journal, Kat Volk and Renu Malhotra of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory present evidence of a "planetary mass" body in the Kuiper Belt, with mass between that of Earth and Mars. This body is totally different from the so-called Planet Nine, a much larger body whose existance yet awaits confirmation.
Yet undiscovered planetary body has given away its presence only by changing the tilt of orbital planes of a population of space rocks known as Kuiper Belt objects, or KBO.
Current theories state that KBOs—debris left over from the formation of the solar system—orbit the sun with orbital tilts (inclinations) that average out to what planetary scientists call the invariable plane of the solar system, the most distant of the Kuiper Belt's objects do not. Tre orbital plane of these objects is tilted from invariable plane by 8 degrees. This means that some unknown body is warping the average orbital plane of the outer solar system with its gravity.
Volk, a postdoctoral fellow at LPL and the lead author of the study says:
The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass. According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured
Image: Heather Roper/LPL
For the study, Volk and Malhotra analyzed the tilt angles of the orbital planes of more than 600 objects in the Kuiper Belt in order to determine the common direction about which these orbital planes all precess. Precession refers to the slow change or "wobble" in the orientation of a rotating object.
According to the theories of planetary disk formation, average orbital plane of objects in the Kuiper Belt should be flat past 50 a. u. distance (1 a.u.=150 million kilometers).
However, going further out from 50 to 80 AU, researchers found that the average plane actually warps away from the invariable plane. There is no more than 1 or 2 percent chance that this warp is merely a statistical fluke of the limited observational sample of KBOs. Authors show that an Mars-sized object orbiting at 60 a. u. on an orbit tilted by about 8 degrees to the ecliptic plane could with its gravity to warp the orbital plane of the smaller bodies within about 10 a. u. on both sides.
Image: Heather Roper/LPL
The observed KBO at such distances confirm the hypothesis.
Beside Mars-sized body researchers considered other possibilities.
First, this cannot be influence of the hypothetical Planet Nine because its predicted mass is about 10 Earth masses and its orbit is too far away - at 500 to 700 a. u.
Second, the data also do not rule out the possibility that the warp could result from more than one planetary mass object
Third, a star, passed through a Solar System. Seen as unlikely because the warp would be erased within 10 million years.
So, while the best telescopes are busy looking for Planet Nine, maybe soon they'll have to share its time to start looking for a new planet.
Sources:
https://phys.org/news/2017-06-unseen-planetary-mass-warped-kuiper.html
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.02444.pdf
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