Astronomy and Space Physics

Hector Socas-Navarro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias): Searching for Planet 9: The Messenger Hypothesis

Name: Hector Socas-Navarro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias): Searching for Planet 9: The Messenger Hypothesis
Start: 2024-05-02T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-02T15:00:00+02:00
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Thursday 2 May 2024, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Stockholm

Description

Title: Searching for Planet 9: The Messenger Hypothesis
Speaker: Hector Socas-Navarro
Affiliation: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
Time: Thursday 2nd May 2024, 1400 to 1500
Location: 101190 Å

Abstract: The existence of a hypothetical Planet 9 lurking in the outer Solar
System has been posited as a plausible explanation for several statistical anomalies observed in the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects. A candidate location in the sky has been proposed by linking it to a peculiar meteoroid, likely of interstellar origin, that impacted Earth on 2014-01-09. This meteoroid may have undergone a gravitational encounter with Planet 9 (the "messenger hypothesis"). In this talk I'll report on preliminary (negative) results from a search in this candidate region and discuss the results within the context of other recent searches.