Planet Nine, the enigmatic body supposedly loitering somewhere in the furthest reaches of our solar system, has had one more set of observations attributed to it in what Caltech scientists consider the most definitive proof of its existence to date. In this latest work, the researchers claim that the previously unexplained tilt of the Sun itself is a direct result of the gravitational influence of this yet-to-be-observed world and further verification of its presence.
Much speculation has been made about Planet Nine since Caltech scientists first espoused the possibility of its existence, from where it may have come from to theories on its construction. Now large perturbations in trans-Neptunian/Kuiper belt objects announced earlier this year has led to this latest research explaining the strange tilt of the Sun in respect to the orbital plane of the planets.
According to the Caltech researchers, the angular momentum of Planet Nine is exerting an influence on the Solar System because of its position at about a 30 degree angle to the orbital plane and its enormous mass of around 10 times that of the Earth. Spinning about the Solar System at a distance of some 700 AU from the Sun, Planet Nine exerts a small, but influential, sway on the overall spin of the Solar System.
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