“Stolen World: ‘Planet 9’ Likely Came from Another Star”

Last updated on: June 7, 2016 at 11:40 pm by Dan Peterson

Planet 9, with a distant Sun — An artist’s impression of Planet Nine as an ice giant eclipsing the central Milky Way, with a star-like Sun in the distance. Neptune’s orbit is shown as a small ellipse around the Sun.
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I grew up believing that there were nine planets. And then, partially thanks to our Vatican astronomer friend Dr. Guy Consolmagno, who spoke to the Interpreter Foundation conference on science and Mormonism earlier this year, Pluto was demoted, kicked out of the planetary club.

Of late, though, people are again talking about nine planets in our solar system. But Pluto isn’t among them. Instead, a much larger and vastly more distant planet — not yet named after Mr. Donald Trump, but, for now at least, simply called “Planet 9” — has assumed Pluto’s vacant membership in the fraternity.

But where did it come from, if it really exists? And why is it so far away, and with such a curious orbit? Here’s a suggestion:

http://www.space.com/33041-planet-nine-captured-exoplanet.html