Planet 9

Planet 9
What Planet Nine would hypothetically look like, depicted here as a dark, Neptune-like with a moon
Name of Planet	Planet Nine
Number of Sattelites	Unknown, possibly 9
Date of Discovery	To be announced
Distance from Sun	700.0 AU
Diameter	43,712 kilometers
Orbit	Orbital period: 18,515 (Earth years) Semi-major axis: 700.0 (AU) Eccentricity: 0.6 Inclination: 30.0 (degrees) Longitude of the ascending node: 90.0° Argument of perihelion: 140.0 (degrees)
Position in Solar System	Mean anomaly 104.0
Mass of Planet	10 Earth mass

The orbit of 2015 KG₁₆₃ (right side, in orange) and other extreme detached objects, along with the hypothetical Planet Nine's orbit on the right

Planet Nine, or Planet X, is a hypothetical planet hypothesized to exist in the outermost edges of the Solar System, possibly in the Oort Cloud.

It is thought to be about 42,000 kilometers in diameter, probably larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. Many official names have been suggested for Planet Nine, like Ophadamia and Erebus.

It is probably composed of the same materials as the ice giants, like hydrogen, helium, methane, water, and ammonia. It is also likely to have a simple ring system similar to that of Neptune's. Because of its distance from the Sun, it is hypothesized that a year on Planet Nine would take around 20,000 years!

Origins

It is still unclear how Planet Nine could have gotten into the outer Solar System.

Many theories suggest that Planet Nine could've been ejected into the Oort Cloud during the rapid migration of Neptune and the ejection of the Fifth Giant, while others suggest that Planet Nine could be a rogue exoplanet that was captured by the Sun in the past.

Evidence

Recently, scientists observed clustering of objects beyond Neptune's orbit, and that something large was affecting their stability.

This led to the theory of a ninth planet existing in the outermost edges of the Kuiper Belt, but no such planet was found.

Later, scientists theorized that Planet Nine could be a black hole. But this theory isn't widely accepted.