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Theoretical Evidence For a Ninth Planet Beyond Pluto May Be Premature (forbes.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Earlier today, the team of Pluto-killer Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin announced that they had found evidence of a ninth planet in our Solar System beyond the orbit of Pluto, larger and more massive than even Earth. However, a closer inspection of the work shows that they predict a few things that haven't been observed, including a population of Kuiper belt objects with large inclinations and retrograde orbits, long-period Kuiper belt objects with opposite ecliptic latitudes and longitudes, and infrared data showing the emission from such an outer world. There are many good reasons to be skeptical, and not conclude that there's a ninth planet without more (and better) evidence.
Every time some scientist comes out with even the most untested hypothesis, the media starts touting it as some great new discovery. The headlines were "New Planet Found!" when there should have been no headlines at all (not until it can be verified by many other astronomers).
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Actually, I thought it was because Pluto hadn't cleared its orbit.
A dinosaur astronomer could say the same thing about the Earth. Seriously, I suspect it's a matter of restricting the definition to the point where the number of planets become manageable rather than the couple of thousands mentioned by the grandparent. I wonder what would happen to the definition if the new ninth planet turned out to be a collision prone celestial body.
I do not get why so many articles here are sourced at Forbes when almost everyone here can't see them.
They are all submitted and posted by one person. Look at starts with a bang's profile. One single post on slashdot, but some 300 story submission attempts of which all are to his personal blog on Forbes, and of which a sadly high number is being accepted.