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Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda cover image

Mike Brown and Millie Dresselhaus: Exploring the very big and the very small

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Is There a Planet Nine?

We have seen, i would say, very clear evidence of the gravitational effects of a really large planet out beyond neptune. And we're now doingthe very slow process of scanning the sky looking for it. It is much, much harder than all of this that i did 20 years ago to find these other things,. because it's so much further away and so much fainter. There ought to be big news pretty soon, because you seem to have identified your own planet. Nine. The fifth largest planet in our solar system.

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