| Speaker: | Mike Brown (Caltech) |
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| Title: | The Search for Planet Nine |
| Date (JST): | Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 15:30 - 17:00 |
| Place: | Lecture Hall |
| Abstract: | We have recently suggested that a giant planet well beyond Neptune is required to explain unexpected clustering in the orbits of very distant and eccentric Kuiper belt objects. I will present the evidence for this clustering as well as the dynamical evidence that a giant planet is responsible. Finally, I will discuss prospects for directly detecting this planet in the near future and what it might tell us about the formation of the solar system. |
| Seminar Video: | [VIDEO] |
