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user-inactivated  ·  2530 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: There might not be a ‘Planet Nine’ after all

That quote was from Cosmos, speaking about the discovery about the new-found moon circling the planet. I know it is out there, just need to work on my google-fu because sweet fucking retards of shit. You do a space search anymore and it is all churches and conspiracy tards and flat earth fuckery. These people must have tons of cash. Seeing that most of these guys are in their late 60's my guess is retired and nothing else to spend their SSI on. (sorry end of rant).

The Neptune, perbutations? They cleaned the main telescope used during the data collection, this caused a change in the pointing of the equipment. This explains why nobody else outside of France were able to find the change in speed. It was not until Voyager 2 went by Neptune in 1989 that the exact mass of Neptune was worked out; with that data point all the math using Neptune to find "Planet X" went away.