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March 27, 2017
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"Planet Nine" was named as People's Choice for video.
"Planet Nine" presents an argument for a distant ninth planet in the solar system. The visualization illustrates the discoveries being made in the Kuiper Belt, the uncertainty about the location of this hypothetical planet and computer simulations of distant areas in the solar system.
Credit: Patrick McPike, Mark SubbaRao and Mike Brown
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