If Planet 9 has Moons, Would That Help Us Find It? By Nancy_A
The orbits of several KBOs provide indications about the possible existence of Planet 9. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt
Additionally, since no optical and radio signals have been detected so far for Planet 9, other potential explanations that have gained favor is that Planet 9 could be a “dark” object, such as an object made of dark matter, or aMan Ho Chan told Universe Today that its highly likely, no matter what Planet 9 actually is – planet, dark planet or primordial black hole — the likelihood of it capturing moons is quite high, since there are a lot of smaller trans-Neptunian objects scattered out in that...
How could the moons be revealed? These satellites would give off an observable standard thermal radio spectrum. Two of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array 12-metre antennas gaze at the sky at the observatory’s Array Operations Site , high on the Chajnantor plateau at an altitude of 5000 metres in the Chilean Andes. Credit: ALMA
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