{"id":478,"date":"2008-02-28T12:09:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T11:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2008-02-28T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T11:09:10","slug":"planet-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Planet X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese team <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080228\/ts_afp\/japanspaceastronomy;_ylt=AkvYm5xcmYdJKxlqPsGTJaBvaA8F\" target=\"_blank\">believes there may be a planet<\/a> 70% the size of Earth at the far reaches of the solar system. As I still recognise Pluto as a planet, that would make it the 10th.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   The researchers at <span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1204196143_0\">Kobe University<\/span> in western Japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was only a matter of time before the mysterious &#8220;Planet X&#8221; was found.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of the very cold temperature, its surface would be covered with ice, icy ammonia and methane,&#8221; <span style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1204196143_1\">Kobe University professor<\/span> Tadashi Mukai, the lead researcher, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The study by Mukai and researcher Patryk Lykawka will be published in the April issue of the US-based Astronomical Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The possibility is high that a yet unknown, planet-class celestial body, measuring 30 percent to 70 percent of the Earth&#8217;s mass, exists in the outer edges of the solar system,&#8221; said a summary of the research released by Kobe University.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If research is conducted on a wide scale, the planet is likely to be discovered in less than 10 years,&#8221; it said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese team believes there may be a planet 70% the size of Earth at the far reaches of the solar system. As I still recognise Pluto as a planet, that would make it the 10th. The researchers at Kobe University in western Japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}