Juliette Becker, a graduate student in LSA’s Department of Astronomy specializing in the burgeoning field of exoplanets, told a meeting of fellow planetary scientists that results of computer simulations she and her colleagues have conducted are consistent with a hypothetical Planet Nine.
At the annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Science on October 17, Becker said results of computer simulations show that a hypothesized Planet Nine would help stabilize trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in orbits more than 250 times the size of the earth’s circuit around the sun.
Click here to read more about Becker’s research on Planet Nine and trans-Neptunian objects.
