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Michael E. Brown is a professor of planetary astronomy on the California Institute of Expertise. His 2012 e book known as How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming.
Brown helped uncover our solar system’s Kuiper Belt, which has similarities to the asteroid belt, however incorporates as much as 200 occasions extra materials.
In early 2016, Brown and a colleague – Konstantin Batygin, additionally at Caltech – described how the same orbits of six small our bodies within the outer solar system could possibly be defined by one other main planet in our solar system. They name it Planet 9. And so they’re nonetheless hoping to seek out it.
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