Interesting details of mythical Planet 9.

“The Subaru Telescope has spotted a cosmic relic that could rewrite what we know about the early Solar System. Nicknamed 'Ammonite' but officially designated 2023 KQ14, this newly discovered space rock is now the fourth known sednoid, a rare class of distant, icy bodies with highly elongated orbits that dance around the outermost fringes of our cosmic neighbourhood. What makes Ammonite special? It’s not just its extreme orbit. It's a frozen relic from the dawn of the Solar System, offering clues about how our planets formed around the Sun, and whether a mysterious ninth planet still lurks in the darkness.” (BBC Sky at Night magazine,Ancient relic discovered on the edge of our Solar System could help solve the Planet Nine mystery)

Search for Planet 9 continues. Planet 9 is the name. For the mysterious gravitational effect. That affects the trajectory of the planet Neptune. The new observations about the trans-Neptunian objects, TNOs. Offer an alternative reason for those mysterious gravitational effects. The new trans-Neptunian object. Called 2017 OF201. is the candidate for a dwarf planet. And that object is interesting for searching for Planet X. The 2017 OF201 diameter. It is about 700 kilometers. 

Reseachers used that object’s trajectory. For searching for Planet 9. The 2017 OF201 tells. That there could be more massive objects in the Kuiper belt. And that means that. The alternative explanation for Planet X is the swarm of small objects in the Kuiper belt. A large number of dwarf planets can affect the large planet’s trajectories. But the problem is: could the mass of Kuiper belt objects be so high? Do they affect the trajectory of planet Neptune? 

The finding of the 2017 QF201 caused a new search. And the newest object in our solar system. It is the 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite”. 

Or could the situation there, Alpha Centauri A and B, and Proxima Centauri, along with the Luhman 16 system, form the line? Could those systems, along with Kuiper belt objects, cause the situation in which Neptune’s trajectory wobbles? The latest found TNO. It is the 2023 KQ14. The Subaru telescope found the distant object in the Kuiper belt. And that means that. The large mass of the Kuiper belt might not be found. There can be objects that are waiting for their finders. Those two objects tell us. We don’t know the Kuiper belt yet. 

There is still a possibility. That. There is a cold planet outside the solar system. The mass of planet 9 would be larger than that of Earth. But the problem is that the most promising area for that very distant planet is very far away. For probes like New Horizons, it takes 118 years to reach that area. There is always a possibility that the probe travels to the wrong point. And that means it cannot find the unknown planet. 

“Artist's impression of Quaoar rings. Credit: Paris Observatory” (ScitechDaily, Space Mystery: Unexpected New Ring System Discovered in Our Own Solar System)

But there are also many alternative explanations for Planet 9. If we talk about the mysterious gravity effect. One of the most exciting versions is that. Planet 9 could be a primordial black hole. The small black hole that can lurk inside the icy shell. Reseachers suggest that.  In the universe. There can be small black holes. Those planet-mass black holes. They can lurk inside the structures. That seems like a planet. The size of those theoretical objects can be smaller than a coin. They could create an ice shell around them. If Planet 9 is a primordial black hole. 

That thing. It can be very small and massive. So, if that hypothetical primordial black hole exists. The object called Quaoar is one of the strongest candidates for that thing. The dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring system and moons. The gravity on that object is extremely weak. Or it should be so weak. That the moon and the ring system should not exist. The size. Of. Quaoar is so small. It cannot create a magnetic field. Because Quaoar should not have a melted core. 

There is, of course. A possibility that some kind of gas. Or water can stay liquid. In that extremely low. gravitation and temperature. That thing can carry magnetic particles around the core of that small world. This means that there could be stranger objects than water moons. The water moon means the moons like Jupiter’s Europa. There are low gravity and tidal forces. That keeps those oceans liquid. In that case, water plays the same role as magma basalt. Plays on Earth. So, could there be objects? That are. Similar to the Europa moon? But those objects formed of methane or carbon dioxide ice? The water is replaced by some gas. 

This explains the rings of Quaoar. But things like its satellite Weywot, and another possible. But not a confirmed satellite. They are harder to explain. By using plasma whirls as an explanation. Some people think that Weywot is too far from Quaoar to be its stable companion. But otherwise, conditions in the outer solar system are very stable. 

“Weywot is about 116–172 km (72–107 mi) in diameter and orbits Quaoar every 12.4 days at an average distance of 13,300 km (8,300 mi). Weywot is thought to play a role in maintaining Quaoar's outer ring by gravitationally influencing it in an orbital resonance.” (Wikipedia, Weywot). 

If those rings are locked in Quaoar’s plasma rings. The Quaoar must have a magnetic field. So the magnetic field can form in the interaction. There, weak gravity packs plasma around Quaoar. Then that plasma starts to whirl around the dwarf planet. And that acts as a plasma generator. Another version is that there is something very heavy in that small object. The primordial black hole. It is an interesting theorem. And maybe someday we could see what causes the gravitational effect. In the planet Neptune's trajectory?

https://www.astronomy.com/science/is-planet-nine-a-black-hole-or-a-planet-harvard-scientists-suggest-a-way-to-find-out/

https://scitechdaily.com/is-planet-nine-real-new-discovery-at-the-edge-of-the-solar-system-adds-a-twist/

https://scitechdaily.com/space-mystery-unexpected-new-ring-system-discovered-in-our-own-solar-system/

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/ammonite-2023-kq14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_OF201

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_KQ14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Nine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaoar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weywot