We got Planet 9 before GTA 6.

When I was a kid, we had nine planets. Then we didn't. Now we might, again.

I think we should just call it Planet 9 From Outer Space. I might be the only one, though.

The moment I saw this in my feed I knew I should watch this asap and I was not disappointed.

@7:30 "Yes, we've proven where it isn't. Based on our recent models, we can say with 10 sigma accuracy that Planet IX is not located within 0.01 AU of Earth."

I truly hope that “planet 9” is a lower mass black hole. The ability to send a probe, the implications on dark matter, all the new physics to explain it. Yes please!

Just dropping a comment for the algorithm. Thanks again for all the awesome content John and the team provide 🙂

I put on my Event Horizon T-shirt this AM. Now this! Very cool.

One of several aspects about your channel that I really like is the way you read up on the work of the guests and really prepare ahead of time, rather than just wing it. It makes for a much more interesting and revealing talk.

I feel privileged to have been listening to such a brilliant conversation, thank you.

When the lady said " he is the forbs list of 30 scientists under the age 30" I kinda thought we would have Rajesh Koothrappali on this show.

Great news and great questions, John. I wouldn't mind hearing you guys talking about this for another hour.

Finally 🎉 some of those perks apriciate it

Planety McPlanet-face is the only name I will accept.

I have been waiting for this for years.

The was an awesome video. Extremely happy I took the time to listen to the entire thing. Amazing.

Great interview discussions and questions, Thanks

Always good to get an update from Konstantin on Planet Nine.

Just use the old name, Nibiru

Konstantin Batygin is a great communicator and I’m always a fan of planetary science. Great episode!

Great talk. Many thanks. At 29:40 You mention Eduardo Marturet. I fell off my chair as I hadn't thought of him since we studied at the same music school together. Thanks for a great blast from the past.

Amazing work done by this team. Absolutely incredible. Seeing that Uranus is at a near 90 degree tilt, it makes sense to stop expecting everything in the solar system to be uniform and on a simple plain.

I really hope Planet Nine turns out to to be Primordial black hole. That would give us some chance of getting a probe near an actual black hole.

Thanks for sharing the link to Konstatin's performance in Planet 9 Op. 3 - a rare jewel in deed.

Great show as always, no speculations without substantive facts, pinning down a theory into something real, no automatic dismissal of religious beliefs... love this channel.

cheers from Toronto thanks John

Undoubtedly my favorite guest

Oh my gosh! I am so excited!

It's had a name for thousands of years. It's Nibiru.

The first guest with a more sleep inducing voice than John's. I got one minute into the video and

Love all of the content John Michael but I especially love seeing the photos of the big hydraulic cranes involved in telescope installation because my working life for near on 40 yrs is cranes and rigging. 🤙

Fascinating!!!

Always nice when Konstantin Rockstar Bataygin is on the show

Great video and information !

Wow I didn’t know JMG had another channel!! What a nice surprise

Let’s say it is a small black hole with the mass of a super earth. Could we then use that black hole to gain speed on missions out of the solar system? And how efficient/faster could that potentially make our probes?

I saw 👀 planet 9 in the title and I came here faster than fly on rice!

The idea of Planet 9 is so much fun, the thought of never finding it is kind of sickening. But that's the kind of game the universe likes to play with us.

When I was a kid I got excited for pop music stars like Madonna and now I’m a grown up and I get excited for Dr Batygin and Avi Loeb

Much love for all the scientists exploring the outer solar system

Fantastic episode, Event Horizon team! This is very exciting stuff!

I hereby declare that Planet Nine shall be called "Ouranus."

You never disappoint john but please consider a reading of salvagers that book had my heart racing.

great discussion

Great interview great guest

Is there any chance Planet 9 can account for the regular cooling and warming cycles we see on the planet? I'm thinking snowball earth, younger dryas and warm periods which we don't seem as apt to give cool names.

If Planet IX has a few moons , and if its orbit is more than 550 AU an observatory on a moon beyond the focus of the Solar Gravitational Lens should work wonders.

Pluto forever 😝 I'm really hoping we make a discovery in my lifetime. Maybe it's an interstellar ring gate.

Wow so far the closest i got to fresh release, im hyped lets goooo

Yay!!! My questions made it! Thank you!

I love putting these on while I’m at work and drifting off into space.

Konstantin Batygin's voice sounds like if Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men decided to get into astronomy instead of murder. His inflection, pacing, and diction are dead-on, even if the tonality is slightly higher. Very neat.

What if it's the unimaginably large alien outpost from which all the UAPs have originated from?

I love the fact that several people enjoy this search for 9 my favorite #

Fun fact: holtz’s Mars symphony, the most famous glorious part of that one, was the inspiration for the main rhythm to Black Sabbaths first song, Black Sabbath, on their album Black sabbath. So cool constantine was able to participate in an extension for planet nine 🤟🏻

Danke!

My suspicion is that Planet 9 is a dark body object covered in soot. Why would this be so? The elements and distance from a Star that the planet forming rings of debris are pushed away to from the Star at the Fusion point follow a fairly normal pattern. Rock and metals stay closer to the Star, gasses are pushed further and ash, soot and most light debris is pushed the furthest from the Star at Fusion. What is also important is how fast the rotation of the molecular cloud spins at when reaching Fusion. The faster the spin governs the distance debris will reach from the Star Formation. In the inner Solar System we see very little light particle matter and we now know all Star formations create a significant amount of soot and ash. These particles would be the last to be coalesced therefore producing actual black bodies in the absence of liquid surfaces. So Planet 9 should be called Sooty and its Moon called Sweep. So it is probably a light Carbon Planet. Its Albedo would be circa 5%. Or 95% invisible.

Constantine is a great guest. Loved the interview.

Mass is a different factor than density though. If it's just a modest multiple of Earth masses, if it's an object that skews heavily in composition towards transuranic-elements, then it could be rather small if it somehow doesn't collect a significant gaseous atmosphere. (And that would still be a unique find without going into something more exotic like the lower bounds of what may be possible with a black hole.)

Planet nine needs to be named Newton. Named after the god of the laws of motion.

A tribute to Monty Python and describes the size of Planet 9: Biggus Dickus

Maybe this is a modern version of the Vulcan search. Vulcan as a theorised planet within the orbit of Mercury. It turned out that it was space itself that was altered by the proximity of the Sun but that wasn't understood at the time. Maybe Planet Nine is similarities the result of a misunderstanding of the laws of physics not yet understood.

17:48 Why not call it Terminus. He was the roman god that protected border markers ;-) And what are TNOs when not boarder markers of the solar system 😛

I love this subject. Another planet, wow!

What's ironic is if this planet exists, we're having such a hard time finding it, but it's the most likely planet seen from other stars using the "masking" method (not wobble or transit method).

How about we all agree to name it: Omicron Persei 9?

Always nice with an update on the search for Planet 9. Hopefully it isn't planet nein! 🙂

Minerva is the fourth asteroid located in the main belt known to possess two moons.

The problem is these are based on gravity only models, and the notion of snowball objects (comets) beyond is also being shown to be wrong from observations. Looking forward to the day we get past these now discredited ideas which are blocking our progress.

Does anyone know the name of the end credit music ? I've gone through the musicians in the description and can't seem to find it. Thanks 😊

Interesting that @21:00 mins you mention it could have once been a water world.. I mean if planet 9 is proven to be real, we are talking about actually having to accept that the sumerian/babylonian creation "myth" might actually have been real events or a real observation. It is basically what Tiamat was before she was hit by Marduk, and the remains becoming our earth and the astroid field. It means we would have to accept that the Annu might actually have been real, and could have been a space-faring civilization. I dont mean little green aliens or greys. Idk about all that, but 'from the stars to earth they came'. Thats what they wrote on the tablets.

How do the fields in the standard model intersect? Is baryonic matter the intersections? Would this mean that gravity is the force of the intersections and dark energy is the lack or intersections meaning that gravity and dark matter are the same force? Could the big bang be the physical limit that gravity and dark energy can be opposing?

Thanks!

I remember having the same kind of aha moment when reading about the orbit of VP 16. A large body further out was likely altering it's orbit in this fashion. What is exciting about studies like this one from the incomparable Konstatin Batygin is that the evidence for Planet 9 is increasing over time and not going the other way, which it could have quite easily. Vera Rubin will likely be the first telescope to detect planet 9 and the time is getting near when this will happen. It will also be exciting to see what else Vera Rubin will find. The correlation with early star cluster dynamics is a nice tie in to help explain why this ejected planet ended up in this kind of orbit.

John, Will you be addressing Apothos - The Meteor Due to Be Visible from Earth sometime next year?

if you could track precisely lots of small objects in oort cloud, they would give away the orbit of planet 9. as an alternative, track groups of objects in oort cloud, in a de-focussed kind of way.

Look at all those stars. It’s truly beautiful

David Bowie? Seriously? Planet nine should be named after planet one: Freddie!

Whoa. If we can get actual direct observations this will be almost as big as discovering alien life. Awesome stuff.

What we see could be the left over effect of Scholz star that past near us 50,000 years ago or the other resonance thing that people suspect caused the late heavy bombardment.

I really look foward to a one hour discussion. These are busy scientists, I know. But after waiting one week it's a bit of let down.

Fantastic interview, John! Thanks! 😃 I don't think MOND is a good candidate either, but well... We thought there was a planet called Vulcan before Einstein, so... Who knows. Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

The ort cloud extending 100 000 au blew my mind ❤

What about 12,500 years exactly being the orbital period. The atmosphere is Nitrogen, hydrogen, trace amounts of CO².

Brown and Batygin proposed planet 9 eight years ago despite the fact that our knowledge of objects in the outer solar system is very limited. It looked liked observational bias to me back then and still does today. I’ll believe it when and if they actually find it.

Planet 9 before Star Citizen releases.

Awesome!

Eat one yet! You two are awesome together

note: 93 Minerva is indeed an asteroid, with two moons. Named back in 1867, so yes, any Roman deity you have ever heard of is already taken.

Can you do a video on imaging super resolution? Is there a limit to it? Instead of making larger telescopes, can't we instead create imaging technology so high that we can view distant objects in super-resolution? Is there any research in this field relating to astronomy?

I agree.. I think Planet 9 exists as well. It’s just a matter of time. 😊 Love the performance with the Miami Philharmonic too. It’s on my favorites ❤❤❤

❓ HOW am I just fining this channel? I’ve been following you for years!

Thanks for quantifying the mass question, as approximately five Earth masses. Being such a low mass, "it sort of" rules out the inactive Black Hole Theory? Also being old-school, I tend to lean to Planet X rather than Planet 9... as Pluto being a dwarf Planet, it's still, to me, our 9th member in the Solar System family. LOVE YOU PLUTO! 🌑🤗

Planet Bob.

I've been waiting years for this! Since Konstantin and his colleague Dr Brown made this hypothesis public.

When they finally find it they have to name it Niburu.

I think the Demigod of Untied Shoelaces would be good, because it would be "Tying up loose ends".

The talks about this planet has been going for years and years. At this point one has to be careful that, even tho there's countless papers on this subject, it won't become fiction based on what it could be if it won't ever be discovered. Good talk, i just hope that it will reveal itself soon.

It's easier to understand with Kanstantin doing the explanation with those diagrams.

I need some planet 9 these days.