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5 days ago · "There are now five different lines of observational evidence pointing to the existence of Planet Nine," said Konstantin Batygin, a planetary astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California...
2 days ago · The Nibiru cataclysm is a supposed disastrous encounter between Earth and a large planetary object (either a collision or a near-miss) that certain groups believed would take place in the early 21st century. Believers in this doomsday event usually refer to this object as Nibiru or Planet X.
1 day ago · The reason why it is not might be due to magnetic fields braking the rotation speed of the planet early in its history, said Konstantin Batygin at the California Institute of Technology in the United States, who published the idea in 2018. Early in its history, Jupiter would have had a disk of gas and dust around it that formed many of its moons.
2 days ago · Konstantin Batygin and colleagues argue that these features can be explained if, early in the history of the Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn drifted towards the Sun, sending showers of planetesimals towards the super-Earths which sent them spiralling into the Sun, and ferrying icy building blocks into the terrestrial region of the Solar System ...
Jul 15, 2024 · In early 2016, Brown and a colleague – Konstantin Batygin, also at Caltech – described how the similar orbits of six small bodies in the outer solar system could be explained by another major...
Jul 10, 2024 · Orbital evolution is a critical process that sculpts planetary systems, particularly during their early stages where planet–disk interactions are expected to lead to the formation of resonant chains.
Jul 9, 2024 · In 2016, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown rocked the scientific world with their prediction of a massive, undiscovered planet lurking in the outer reaches of our solar...
