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New candidate for 9th planet identified
short by Anmol Sharma / on Saturday, 3 May, 2025
A group of international researchers has identified a new candidate for ninth planet of our solar system. The candidate is likely the size of Neptune. It could take between 10,000 and 20,000 years to orbit the sun, according to the researchers. Notably, Pluto, which was earlier considered to be the ninth planet, was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.
read more at arXiv