A True Ninth Planet

When Pluto lost its planet status and got relegated to a dwarf planet there was a fair bit of upheaval in the academic circles. However now there seems to be some more controversy headed our way from the studies of astronomers at the California Institute of Technology who have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.

Now is this planet, which they have nicknamed Planet Nine, the true successor to Pluto as the ninth planet of the Solar System? The composition of the planet is mostly gaseous which is similar to that of Uranus and Neptune. It also has ten times the mass of Earth, so no danger of being a dwarf there. It has been calculated that on average it takes the planet between ten to twenty thousand years to complete a full orbit around the sun.

This is partly because of its highly unusual orbit and of course also because its about 2.8 billion miles or more away from the Sun. So far things are falling into place for the Planet Nine. Perhaps the scientific community may like to undertake a scientific study deeming this planet worthy of being included in our humble Solar System?