00:04For years scientists have wondered if there was a ninth planet out there wandering in the far
00:09reaches of our solar system. Pluto obviously excluded, but even though we haven't been able
00:13to get a good picture of it with a telescope just yet, scientists now believe they may have
00:17at least nailed out where it should be. Any large object in space is going to have what's called a
00:22gravity well or a gravitational disruption on the space around it. The gravitational pull might not
00:26move things like other planets, but other small objects in space might be affected. And out beyond
00:31Neptune is a cluster of icy space debris called Kuiper Belt Objects or KBOs. The objects are arranged
00:37in such a way that they likely aren't orbiting in a random path, but rather being acted on by some
00:41other giant space object, something like a ninth planet. A study from 2016 concluded that if it's
00:47out there, the planet must be about five times the mass of Earth and 10 times further from the sun
00:51than Neptune, but we still haven't found it. However, the new study's re-examination of previous data
00:56has narrowed down where to look, all in the hopes that in the very near future, we might finally
01:01get a telescopic look at Planet Nine.
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