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Originally Posted by Astrophe
Has the 9th planet got anything to do with speculation surrounding the Nibiru controversy? It has been mooted that our Sun is in fact one partner in a binary system and that the other sun (named Nibiru) is much smaller and only visits our region of the solar system, periodically, causing devastation and cataclysms, etc....even pole shifts?
Any truth in any of these claims?
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None. Zero. Zilch.
Any object large enough to be labelled a star would have been detected long ago.
It is possible that there is another Neptune sized object out there though. Objects with highly elliptical orbits that never come closer than Neptune are the most difficult to discover, due to them spending so much of their orbit so far away, with so little lateral orbit as seen from earth.
The record for the farthest out object discovered gets broken a couple of times each decade, though all these objects are much smaller than any of the 8 recognised planets.
For something the size of Neptune, you're talking perihelion beyond the Kuiper belt. Possibly an object with an orbit perturbed early in the solar system's history. Pure speculation though.