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user-inactivated  ·  2557 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: There might not be a ‘Planet Nine’ after all

There are too many of these small bodies out there all exhibiting the same or nearly same weird behavior. With the new WFIRST and other infrared survey telescopes looking for asteroids, if there is something large out there that is causing the orbital scattering they will find it or have to go back to the math calculations.