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IDownvoteUrPet t1_it81iaf wrote

SOUNDS LIKE PLANET X TO ME!

I know very little about space outside of being a Reddit browser… But this is my theory from reading the headline alone. Am I doing it right?

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ahazred8vt t1_it9u3t3 wrote

Not an actual full size planet, no. "Ryugu is thought to have originated from a ~100 km-diameter parent body" that was warm enough to be soaking wet on the inside. Some of the rocks marinated in the hot groundwater. "After aqueous alteration, the parent body was catastrophically disrupted by an impact; part of the material re-accumulated to form a rubble pile asteroid, Ryugu."

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ghrayfahx t1_it845yr wrote

Technically there are several Planet X candidates out there. Including Pluto I know of 5 “dwarf planets”, although I believe I heard recently that they discovered a 6th a while back.

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thejoeymonster t1_itn9v8t wrote

I've always thought of Planet X as a larger planet out past the TNOs, not Pluto and other dwarf planets.

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