Planet Nine: Our Solar System's Missing Planet?

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  • @geographicstravel
    @geographicstravel  3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

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    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nibaru melted away like snow with a bic lighter. Don't worry Simon. Your home world is safe..........for now! You keep your secrets but you can see all the FACTS when you listen to Danny's scripts. There is a code in there, when you read it backwards on alternative pages and paragraphs, certain words and phrases stand out telling us about your Reptilian home world and your plan for world domination via youtub...
      *CRASH*
      NO! NO! The world must know the truth! The world must know the...t.r..
      As Simon has said, there is nothing to worry about. All is calm
      All is calm
      All is calm
      All is calm.

    • @ZACHTARK
      @ZACHTARK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm putting a fuel pump in it now

    • @--enyo--
      @--enyo-- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Has there already been a Megaproject on the Vera observatory in Chile? If not can we have one? I’d never even heard of it despite it sounding like a huge achievement.

    • @chronosschiron
      @chronosschiron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      im not gonna lie i took it, thought it was a big beach ball i could play with during pandemic

    • @chronosschiron
      @chronosschiron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      MUST hear scream .....must hear scream

  • @cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988
    @cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1357

    Random fun fact : Neptune has two of the farthest moons from their parent planets. They are Psamathe and Neso. Psamathe is around 0.312 AU from Neptune and needs around 25 Earth years to orbit Neptune. While Neso is around 0.33 AU and needs around 26 to 30 Earth years to orbit Neptune. Their distance is comparable to Mercury's distance from the sun which is around 0.387 AU.

    • @PeasantReaper
      @PeasantReaper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I would have guessed it would have been a Jovian Moon due to its large gravity well. very fascinating

    • @Cailus3542
      @Cailus3542 3 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      0.312 AU? Seriously? At that distance, you'd barely even be able to see Neptune as anything besides a blue star rather than an actual planet. Dang. It makes a degree of sense, I guess, since there's nothing nearby to disrupt those moons' orbits and so they can end up with such loose orbits, but still, wow.

    • @PeasantReaper
      @PeasantReaper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      @@GH29111 just checked wiki and did the math and it's true! They are "irregular moons" and even orbit in the opposite direction of the other moons of neptune

    • @JSJSpeaks
      @JSJSpeaks 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Hey! Keep up the fun facts, c’est tres excellent.

    • @patrickday7689
      @patrickday7689 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@PeasantReaper let's see the math

  • @generalbutterscotch4887
    @generalbutterscotch4887 3 ปีที่แล้ว +195

    Imagine if after all this time it just turned out that Pluto was way more dense than we thought

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Impossible. But would admittably be pretty funny.

    • @DsVs
      @DsVs ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I want pluto to be a planet again so bad it's ok if it's as a dense himbo (i know this comment is unacceptable so ill see myself out)

    • @MarsJenkar
      @MarsJenkar ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Would've been funny, but New Horizons would have shown the extra density if it was really there.

    • @myaccount2400
      @myaccount2400 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DsVs nobody cares

    • @kipter
      @kipter ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It wouldnt matter because its declassification was arbitrary and political anyway

  • @Smol_Turtle
    @Smol_Turtle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    I wanna know what Galle was thinking after finding Neptune in an hour like: "Huh, well damn, I guess it was there."

    • @Cosiek7
      @Cosiek7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      ,,Man I'm good."

    • @Hykje
      @Hykje 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      "Was that it? -What am I going to do now?"

    • @sizanogreen9900
      @sizanogreen9900 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      "What kind of strange shroom did the cook put into my soup this time?"

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably after spinning the telescope around like Bart Simpson

    • @graceneilitz7661
      @graceneilitz7661 ปีที่แล้ว

      He was told the location by a mathematician friend.

  • @Kenzie.Avrahm.Fraser.Gelbart
    @Kenzie.Avrahm.Fraser.Gelbart 3 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Simon clearly needs an astronomy channel now too.

  • @jessigraphiel9048
    @jessigraphiel9048 3 ปีที่แล้ว +193

    "Our sun stole it"
    I don't know why but I bursted out laughing when he said that.

    • @LadyBeyondTheWall
      @LadyBeyondTheWall 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      It'd be just like our sun to be roaming around other neighborhoods stealing other star's planets! It is like one of our parents after all and children learn from parents. 🤭

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@LadyBeyondTheWall its Fun

    • @ajstevens1652
      @ajstevens1652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ejosjek52.87 Not the brightest thing you've done though.

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Error where did u get the pfp?

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Michael Horton always has been

  • @loudnoise4690
    @loudnoise4690 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    In the 1970's I was a member of the Science Fiction Book Club. One of the books I got was a collection of short stories whose title I don't remember. There was one halfway decent story in it that was written by someone I also don't remember. The story was built around the fact that a scientist found Planet X and, using advanced, state-of- the-art experimental 2015 spacecraft, set out to visit it.
    As things turned out is was a Dyson Sphere built around a red dwarf (which makes sense now that I think about it). The RD had spent itself millions of years ago and the entire thing drifted into our neighborhood to hang around for a couple of million years.

  • @anarchyantz1564
    @anarchyantz1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    You have to admit though the drawing of that Rhino based only on written information and back in 1515 when some then could not even draw a human right is astonishing.

    • @PrezVeto
      @PrezVeto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I knew they had to just be phoning in every other drawing! Lol I just can't believe they couldn't figure out how to make depth look right.

    • @ryanhill6684
      @ryanhill6684 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That was just the style of art back then. People were more than capable of art that is insanely lifelike

    • @IceniTotalWar
      @IceniTotalWar 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Leroy Brown Oh yeah and what's wrong with Matchstick Men & Cat's & Dogs 🤔😁

    • @Godwin420
      @Godwin420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I bet more indoctrinated sheep of electronic media and general BS today would be hard-pressed 'to draw a human right' than those fine folks of 1515...

    • @view1st
      @view1st 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      To me, up until the Renaissance and persisting in many places throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, European artists painted like children, their art quite amateurish. What's more remarkable is that this apparent amateurism persisted in some places well into the 19th century! The Chinese are only a little better. Like, why did it take so long to discover perspective and naturalism/realism? The most striking example, in my opinion, is Byzantine religious art (and Christian art in general). It's like the ability to depict the world accurately suffered a serious decline after the fall of the Western Roman empire.

  • @scottydu81
    @scottydu81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    If they name the next planet “Vulcan”, they *have* to call it’s first moon “Nimoy”

    • @HeartbeatCN
      @HeartbeatCN 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But that's the name for the hypothetical planet that's supposed to be closer to the Sun than Mercury. Einstein himself disproved "Vulcan". Planet X, The one beyond Neptune, is a distinct theory from it.

    • @johnr797
      @johnr797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@HeartbeatCN I like Quirinus, "the spear holder", because he was poking Neptune into a slightly irregular orbit.

    • @davenettlesmusic2954
      @davenettlesmusic2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@HeartbeatCN Check out MRMBB333, he has a video of what appears to be a planet in the edge of the Sun's Corona.

    • @davenettlesmusic2954
      @davenettlesmusic2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @John Barber Yes, Spock indeed.

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vulcan Lol wow how would it be vulcan if its far away and barley gets any sunlight and has no volcanoes since its a ice giant

  • @Hiddenus1
    @Hiddenus1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1428

    Till proven to exist Planet Nine should be called Planet Nein.

  • @dk-fk4xm
    @dk-fk4xm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    That ending is basically 'Planet 9 is the friends we made along the way'.

    • @nin469
      @nin469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Spoilers!

    • @VineyardGHS
      @VineyardGHS 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your comment is the most films down so it appears first in the comment list thanks for the spoilers scumbag

    • @userloser4553
      @userloser4553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ^ like its Game of Thrones or something. Chill

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 ปีที่แล้ว +230

    1:30 - Chapter 1 - The missing world
    4:50 - Chapter 2 - Secret worlds
    8:20 - Chapter 3 - Myths & legends
    11:35 - Mid roll ads
    13:00 - Chapter 4 - Planet 9
    15:40 - Chapter 5 - The invisible world
    18:55 - Chapter 6 - A mirage in space

    • @Kiki_Wi_
      @Kiki_Wi_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ty

    • @ligmaphotons
      @ligmaphotons 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Legend

    • @veronviper06
      @veronviper06 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@PlasmaStorm73N5EVVfirst, these ones are auto generated, and second, they didn’t exist when the video released

    • @disclaimer.imjokin
      @disclaimer.imjokin ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@veronviper06third... 2 years on you read this back... you still a bellend??

  • @BlastinRope
    @BlastinRope 3 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    Pluto watching this: im literally shaking rn

    • @JordiVanderwaal
      @JordiVanderwaal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I'm literally wobbling rn*

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Trans neptunian object

  • @drboze6781
    @drboze6781 3 ปีที่แล้ว +204

    2:36 - Professor Farnsworth explained that astronomers grew weary of all the jokes about Uranus and so renamed it Urectum.

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      _Eagle 5_ : "I ♥ Uranus"

    • @chillcannongames5758
      @chillcannongames5758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No no. "Urectum."

    • @trybeanpole1873
      @trybeanpole1873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Don’t use the smelloscope on that one.

    • @mridlon1634
      @mridlon1634 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Christopher-N
      Starfish: This is Starfish calling Eagle 5! Starfish calling Eagle 5!

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mridlon1634: Starfish to Eagle 5-don't remember. Which one is that from?

  • @Ceyrenn460
    @Ceyrenn460 3 ปีที่แล้ว +226

    It's obviously a Mass Effect Relay way out there that we haven't seen yet.

    • @dango6266
      @dango6266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      That'd be epic until you realize that means Reapers exist.

    • @thedwarvenking8127
      @thedwarvenking8127 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Time for the great shepherd to arrive and save the day

    • @blackzali8061
      @blackzali8061 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      3.47 am for me

    • @sophroniel
      @sophroniel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh no
      Reapers

    • @STG44musikmeister
      @STG44musikmeister 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@sophroniel We have dismissed that claim.

  • @Lagul_4
    @Lagul_4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    Great work on all 84,000 channels as always, Simon! Could you consider a video on Venus? I always found it deeply fascinating (more so than Mars); beautiful yet hellish.

    • @anothernumber9753
      @anothernumber9753 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There once was a lady from Venus
      Who's body was shaped like a penis
      When First Contact was made
      The crew were dismayed
      When she told them her species and genus.

    • @phantomechelon3628
      @phantomechelon3628 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One day TH-cam will simply be known as WhistlerTube.

    • @mikoto7693
      @mikoto7693 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I find Mars so fascinating, sad and oddly beautiful. That if things had been a little different it could have held water, could have developed and kept life. We could have had Martians.

  • @KEVMAN7987
    @KEVMAN7987 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Planet X: Pluto's Revenge
    "The dwarf planets are out there, and they're pissed."

  • @CornPopsDood
    @CornPopsDood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +176

    I’m not that old, & Pluto was a planet when I was in school.

    • @joshallen5316
      @joshallen5316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If it was a planet you are old

    • @CornPopsDood
      @CornPopsDood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@joshallen5316 Not even half as much as you’d like to think know it all. You realize that’s only become an argument in less than 2 decades right? I might be old enough to be your daddy, but I’m still plenty able to whoop that ass without a problem.
      Nice try smartass, but you’re far from ready to take this on big boy. Go on.

    • @martinmackye9865
      @martinmackye9865 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@CornPopsDood carry yourself with more gravitas and sense of self old-timer.... You sound insecure about your age.... Having the exact opposite effect you were going for....

    • @CornPopsDood
      @CornPopsDood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@martinmackye9865 Your entitled to an opinion. Nobody gives a fuck though. Getting old is a gift. Being an idiot is a choice.

    • @Desyx14
      @Desyx14 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@joshallen5316 Kid you know Nasa has never stopped considering it a planet right?
      Like, cornpop might be rude, but he's right. Idiocy is a choice.
      If pluto isn't a planet, neither is earth. We fail the exact same test the IAU put pluto to.

  • @heygek2769
    @heygek2769 3 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Man, Einstein's theory dunked on so many other theories in all areas of science, crazy.

    • @unclebrat
      @unclebrat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Newton was already familiar with the problem of Mercury's orbit.

    • @slcpunk2740
      @slcpunk2740 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That's how he decided what to do his theory on. It was the center of the dunking Venn diagram. He also taught Cadbury how to get cream into eggs. 🤫

    • @mynameisjoejeans
      @mynameisjoejeans ปีที่แล้ว

      I think Einsteins theory is why everything is behaving outside of our models now tho. Astronomers are claiming 98% of the universe is invisible, dark matter and dark energy are undetectable but everywhere, and now TNOs acting funny - a simpler explanation is that our current theory of gravity is only accurate on a solar system scale, similar to how Newton’s was only accurate on a planetary scale. Just as an inaccurate theory forced us to invent Vulcan, Einsteinian gravity is forcing us to invent tonnes of stuff at large scales.

  • @piermariobarozzi
    @piermariobarozzi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    "Hello my name is Georgium Sidus"
    "Hahahahaha Uranus"

    • @PhantomLover007
      @PhantomLover007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ha ha ha. Ur n ass. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Place _Spaceballs_ bumper sticker here.

    • @viperzang6923
      @viperzang6923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Uranus" Greeks and their Gods, amirite? 😏

    • @dieSpinnt
      @dieSpinnt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@viperzang6923 Nope, it is the latinization of ancient Greek οὐρανός uranós, what means: 'heaven'.
      Just uninformed english speakers (like in the video) have a childish laugh about this(or mention this), because it isn't even an english word.
      How much "funny" words do you think exist, when we iterate over the existing 7.102 and the 9.000 dead languages in all combinations and words? That would be a really interesting scientific research for a childish and dumb topic:)

    • @michaeljones7465
      @michaeljones7465 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Palaemon has been photographed.

  • @introvertednoise
    @introvertednoise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Simon’s beard probably had its own gravitational pull. It’s glorious, my goodness!

    • @fefelarue2948
      @fefelarue2948 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He has his own beard oil line.

  • @BlueViper8907
    @BlueViper8907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    When Simon starts to bring up conspiracy theories.
    Me. Anxiously awaiting for the theory of the Lizard people from Nibiru living in the hollow earth beneath us with our solar systems second 'missing' star.
    Me later in the video. I was not left wanting or disappointed. Like clockwork Simon, I love it. Thank you!

    • @josvercaemer264
      @josvercaemer264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      You forget the j*****h space laser controlled by the alluminati being housed on the grassy knowl

    • @Jaytwisty23
      @Jaytwisty23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      These me them so called jokes in comment sections have ran their course, they're not funny anymore

    • @yujirohanma5199
      @yujirohanma5199 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Jaytwisty23 nobody was joking.

    • @tthappyrock368
      @tthappyrock368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ...and a craving for Scooby snacks😊

  • @stantheman9072
    @stantheman9072 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    When Simon one day breaks the internet due to quality overload, we can justifiably say a hearty, “Well done, sir!”

  • @DiracComb.7585
    @DiracComb.7585 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    A hunt that really exemplifies the adage, “ It’s not about the destination, but the journey.”

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The *real* Planet X was the friends we made along the way!

    • @michaelw6422
      @michaelw6422 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or maybe the real friends were the planets we x’d along the way…
      🪦 Pluto

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      A hunt is as much about the thrill of the pursuit as it is about the meat, to a Klingon.

    • @viperzang6923
      @viperzang6923 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scottydu81 The *real* Planet X was the Black Hole we found along the way. FTFY

  • @juliadagnall5816
    @juliadagnall5816 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I read a book written by Mike Brown and it helped me appreciate how much of astronomy is having access to the right equipment at the right time with the right weather conditions. When he first started searching for TNOs his team was using an outdated analog telescope that still used photographic plates instead of digital technology, but that was actually a good thing because while digital cameras are really good at capturing focused images they’re not as good at long exposure wide shots which is what you need if you’re taking pictures of a large area and basically eliminating everything you know can’t be a planet. Of course digital technology has advanced a lot since then, but I thought that was really cool.

  • @x_8643
    @x_8643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    They should name it Pluto Jr., in honour of the OG ninth planet.

    • @mizzshortie907
      @mizzshortie907 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I vote yes

    • @MajorOutage
      @MajorOutage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      They should reinstate Pluto as a planet, in honor of itself.
      It's OK to change the qualifications for allowing new planets. But Pluto was grandfathered.

    • @donkeysaurusrex7881
      @donkeysaurusrex7881 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@MajorOutage If you use the definition used to disqualify Pluto from planethood, earth isn’t a planet either.

    • @evos469
      @evos469 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@MajorOutage NASA still classifies it as a planet. Most of the IAU aren't qualified to make the determination of what a planet is. Most of planets in SOL aren't planets since Jupiter and the sun's gravitational pulls effects everything.

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Nu

  • @ADRMajestic12
    @ADRMajestic12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Do we not talk about Pluto anymore or is it the distant uncle that never gets invited to family gatherings!

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Still talk. about it

    • @ADRMajestic12
      @ADRMajestic12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ejosjek52.87 ok it is still a planet.............there i said it!

    • @CosmicValkyrie
      @CosmicValkyrie 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pluto gets invited to the family gatherings of dwarf planets, not planets.

    • @ejosjek52.87
      @ejosjek52.87 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ADRMajestic12 atleast call it a Trans neptunian object

    • @ADRMajestic12
      @ADRMajestic12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ejosjek52.87 or just a planet, which is easier............and correct

  • @n0lanv0id
    @n0lanv0id 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    JUST sat down with my coffee - perfect

  • @ninoscholz1110
    @ninoscholz1110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm 43, and got a brief fear reaction when you showed Michael Jackson's girlfriend screaming. Your clip is directly after the yellow eyes "Go away" part that had me freaking as a kid lol

  • @caza9758
    @caza9758 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

    I was heading to sleep, but I can't miss such an interesting topic

  • @Yupppi
    @Yupppi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What wasn't mentioned here, is that the group of scientists who found those tno's suspect the planet nine might be circling sun in a totally different direction as the others. Sort of "vertical" which is very uncommon. That also makes it really difficulty to predict its position to search for it.

  • @LovinLyfeA2Z
    @LovinLyfeA2Z 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Thank you for this! I just started getting into astronomy this week and last night I was talking with my daughter about planet 9.

  • @churchofchris1973
    @churchofchris1973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The best part of Simon's shows is hearing the difference between British and American English.

  • @rangerg7278
    @rangerg7278 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Sometimes, Simon, you get a subject where you and your team are all "top shelf" in production and presentation. The idea of the value in a search (based on best, or at least reasonable, information of its time) for what may well be not there I believe to be one of our better human traits. Well done!
    Ranger G.

  • @runealexander4916
    @runealexander4916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    New drinking game: Take a shot every time Uranus is mentioned.

  • @CannaCJ
    @CannaCJ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    34 moons discovered in the outer solar system within my lifetime. That there were still massive undiscovered objects in our backyard after all this time is baffling. How unprepared we are for the necessary space exodus...

  • @terryoconnor5262
    @terryoconnor5262 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I would really like to hear more about the Vera C. Rubin observatory, it’s seems quite the undertaking… a mega project, as it were

    • @TurquoiseInk
      @TurquoiseInk ปีที่แล้ว

      That would be a video I would watch.

  • @immortalsofar5314
    @immortalsofar5314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Phew, I didn't realise this channel was yours Simon. I clicked with my finger on the back button half expecting a scary-voice in-a-world narrator telling me it was "lurking" somewhere. Thank goodness for that, I can now watch in peace and, probably, actually learn something.

  • @CaminoAir
    @CaminoAir 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The engineering required to enable the Vera C Rubin observatory to operate (without interference) is astonishing. It's well worth looking up a video on the techniques involved.

  • @benclark3621
    @benclark3621 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    We will never forget!
    Pluto: Planet 9, 1930-2006

    • @nunyaok
      @nunyaok 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Pluto will always be the 9th planet. X has always been the 10th planet

  • @bushmanPMRR
    @bushmanPMRR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    "... looks like Uranus..."
    I'm sorry, I just can't help myself!
    😂😂😂

  • @robertgotschall1246
    @robertgotschall1246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent, I had vaguely wondered about the relationship between Planet X and Planet 9.
    This reminds me philosophically of the things we discovered looking for The Northwest Passage.

    • @cripplegunsmith1
      @cripplegunsmith1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That is a great comparison. And so many things discovered along the way!

  • @codidevlugt2153
    @codidevlugt2153 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "ALIENS FROM...."
    "Don't say it B-Man."
    "URANUS!"
    "Real mature Bradley!"

    • @vexile1239
      @vexile1239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Really? Shepard?"
      "*sigh* probing Uranus"

  • @PGHarchangel
    @PGHarchangel 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Well looks like I'm not getting any work done for the next 22 min. Thanks Simon.

  • @channingsmith3575
    @channingsmith3575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is my favorite Geographics yet. Thank you!

  • @randybounds2244
    @randybounds2244 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    "Plan 9 from outer space" Hey Simon how bout a bio on Ed Wood.

    • @Cassie_2182
      @Cassie_2182 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Seconded!

    • @triton199
      @triton199 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And Coleman Francis after him lol

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do a Megaprojects on Plan 9!

    • @tthappyrock368
      @tthappyrock368 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Great idea!

  • @yourlordship1119
    @yourlordship1119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I really like the idea of a tiny black hole just chilling around us lmao

    • @Quadrolithium
      @Quadrolithium 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That will also be a hazard for space travel, it's not easy to detect and 2nd: it messes with star charts, sure you wont get sucked in but you might get lost instead with poor navigation

    • @dgdave2673
      @dgdave2673 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That possibility has been already theorized. However issue is based on the gravitational calculations Astrophysicists have come up with for the Planet X or Object X , this black hole can’t be more than the size of a baseball…

    • @allewis4008
      @allewis4008 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It would make sense; a tiny little thing still strong enough to throw space rocks around

  • @JohnDrummondPhoto
    @JohnDrummondPhoto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    What a time it is for science geeks like me to be alive.

    • @nosuchthing8
      @nosuchthing8 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's amazing to be alive at all during the time of covid

  • @angelitabecerra
    @angelitabecerra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    16:19 OK, now I need giant space rhinoceroses to be a *thing*

  • @silvernova354
    @silvernova354 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love astronomy. Thanks for this!

  • @KuriusOranj
    @KuriusOranj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice work! While watching videos about our solar system, I think about the project I did in grade 7 about Jupiter. That was in 1979. I expect that it isn't quite as accurate as I thought it was back then.

  • @rangeldino2633
    @rangeldino2633 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In elementary school I hold a presentation about Sedna. Our teacher back then made 9 groups in the class (I think it was 2004), each of which should make a presentation about one of our planets in the solar system. I do not remember which group I was originally assigned to, but I remember that I googled a little bit around and learned about Sedna being named the tenth planet. So I asked my teacher to do an presentation about that one instead, so that really all known planets are represented :D Guess I got really excited about it because even she did not know about it. And back then my teacher was omniscient for me. It was also really interesting to learn the little which was known about Sedna, so interesting in fact that I started to love doing presentations alltogether. I made a lot of presentations in elementary school, some were seriously large, I think my longest talk took over 90 minutes then, about the roman empire. That one I presented three times, because my teacher was so impressed (or, looking back, maybe I was a good way for her to have a break ^^), once to my class, once to the other three classes of my grade, and once to the visitors of the schools summer festival. Maybe that benefited my tutoring skills after all, even though I never aimed to be a tutor I have been doing it for the last 4 years now, first university students, now medical facitlity workers and software technicians.
    So the search for Planet Nine or at least Sedna has influenced my life quite a bit, too, even though I had absolutely nothing to do with it :D

  • @romemedina4712
    @romemedina4712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great having Flagstaff finally called out in a video.

  • @pakde8002
    @pakde8002 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I think we need a naming convention to prevent astronomy geeks from giving newly discovered astronomical bodies names that don't reflect well on the scientific community.

    • @mortified776
      @mortified776 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      With species being named after celebrities, Pokemon, and Marvel characters; and fundamental particle names threatening to get sillier, I think a general convention on respecting the dignity of science is urgently needed!

    • @TheLithp
      @TheLithp ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd totally name it New Asshole.

  • @elusivelight3766
    @elusivelight3766 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Planet X would have been a more accurate name if Pluto hadn’t been demoted. Good video.. ⭐️

  • @TheRedMartian
    @TheRedMartian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    He believed in martians, and I’m here to prove he was right. All though we’re red not green/grey like you think.

    • @fefelarue2948
      @fefelarue2948 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I told people that and nobody believed me

    • @davenettlesmusic2954
      @davenettlesmusic2954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I saw the 1st Mariner 6 images.

  • @somenygaard
    @somenygaard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    17:40 A 4th option. It was created right where it sits.

  • @ty1erwood
    @ty1erwood 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Another video with Simon = another good day! Thank you sir!

  • @Crytica.
    @Crytica. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The most interesting part of this whole video for me personally was learning about Sedna

  • @sloshed-rat
    @sloshed-rat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    Yeah, there was a ninth planet. It was called Pluto, and we didn't appreciate how cool it was.

    • @tirex3673
      @tirex3673 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      this is Pallas erasure

    • @terrybardy2848
      @terrybardy2848 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Make Pluto a planet again!

    • @reecetaylor2626
      @reecetaylor2626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Leroy Brown then our solar system has dozens of planets. Im not at all against that, but we gotta be consistent

    • @reecetaylor2626
      @reecetaylor2626 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Leroy Brown pog. Pluto is a binary planet system now

    • @reecetaylor2626
      @reecetaylor2626 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Leroy Brown no clue. I just roll with the joke

  • @Eden-xz9fy
    @Eden-xz9fy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is by far the best Geographics video I have watched. More topics like this please.

  • @briang7030
    @briang7030 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Simon Whistler must be Square Space highest paid "employee"

  • @Dirtyburke
    @Dirtyburke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Absolutely one of my most favorite videos to date. Damn Simon. You hit it out of the park with this one!

  • @papajuuso9159
    @papajuuso9159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    17:37 Yes, I will not be sleeping tonight.

    • @elvato_ns
      @elvato_ns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well… Twitter can’t cancel it…

    • @warbrain1053
      @warbrain1053 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really want a blackhole in the solar system :')

  • @brandon2755
    @brandon2755 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    16:58 “our sun stole it”. Rogue planets are super fun to think about. Planets formed around one star that for whatever reason were launched out of orbit, could be that Sedna was either taken by our sun or adopted by our sun. Path got close enough to be caught by our suns gravity that it’s basically in the middle of a slingshot and since that orbit is so far out that we have it’s estimate around 11,400 years. There are countless people out there much smarter than me that probably already thought about this but I’m not going to stop bringing this up, at the end of the day, we simply don’t know.

  • @pedrolopez8057
    @pedrolopez8057 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "where are we going?" "Planet 10!" "When are we going?" "Real soon!"

  • @HS-cf8lz
    @HS-cf8lz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Planet 9 is the rogue planet that creates its own dark matter that also creates mini black holes

  • @kesslerrb
    @kesslerrb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Percival Lowell’s last name rhymes with the word “roll”

    • @paulfeist
      @paulfeist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Glad I'm not the only one that noticed that!

    • @paulpeterson4216
      @paulpeterson4216 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It also kinda rhymes with LOL

  • @juancuelloespinosa5495
    @juancuelloespinosa5495 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    10:53 I honestly thought you said "ass" as in neptune's behind, since we only see whatever side is lit by the sun

  • @zakiducky
    @zakiducky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I didn’t know Simon had this channel, too! Lol I can’t keep count anymore

  • @LillibitOfHere
    @LillibitOfHere 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I spent the whole video thinking about how instead of talking about Uranus we could have been talking about "Georgie inside us".

  • @lovelywaz
    @lovelywaz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's very interesting that these guys (astronomers?) can claim to know all about the avg surface temp, size and weather patterns of "earth like" planets that are hundreds of light years away and yet can not confirm or deny if there's one more planet circling around the Sun within our solar system. 🤔🤔🤷‍♀️🥱😴
    Edit:- To further my point, @ 10:50 when Voyager 2 first visited Neptune in 1989 they (shockingly!) discovered that the planet was 2% heavier than they -calculated- thought. And yet all those claims about planets in other solar systems or even other galaxies hundreds of light years away must be very accurate!

  • @jasonbourneistreadstone
    @jasonbourneistreadstone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    .. And that missing ninth planet is named Pluto. And it still remembers being Planet 9 and is bitter about being reclassified as a dwarf planet.

  • @jacob221100
    @jacob221100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    i truly wonder how is it possible someone may dislike such educational videos XD .

  • @prime-rib
    @prime-rib 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You left out an important and pertinent fact about the wobble in Mercury's orbit: The original theory was that there was unseen, "dark matter," (ring a bell?) that was disrupting the orbit. Later, mathematics solved the problem. Perhaps modern astrologers aka cosmologist will get a clue, pull their collective heads out of their collective paradigm and figure that out that new mathematics can solve their problem, too, instead of creating an ever-increasing list of mythical dark particles.

  • @ShadowWasntHere8433
    @ShadowWasntHere8433 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    The only way we’d ever see a black hole that tiny is if we accidentally fly too close to it one time, and it soeghettifies the ship

  • @Crackhouts
    @Crackhouts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    We all need a little Georgium Sidus

  • @PantsuMann
    @PantsuMann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    I cant even comprehend how thick that beard is. Im a bearded man in my early 30's and hoping to the gene gods that it will get that thick. It's majestic, mr Whistler.

    • @josvercaemer264
      @josvercaemer264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm 43, at your age you should see every hair follical developed or pertruding .But Then again , every body is different

    • @Mr.Cerera69
      @Mr.Cerera69 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Try to not to shave for longer period. Every time i dont shave for like a month my hair get thicker and thicker.

    • @censored1430
      @censored1430 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If it makes you feel any better his lighting set up makes it look considerably thicker though I can't deny his good genetics

    • @PantsuMann
      @PantsuMann 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mr.Cerera69 I'm a slow grower- Im currently at around 40mm lenght. It takes me months to get where I am today. But I also have a lighter tone to my beard. I decided in June that I wont touch it in a good while, like december so we'll see where this road goes. I have had longer before, but never thick like this madlad. My coworkers think it's thick enough but they have no idea what I'm comparing to lol I mean, just look at it!

    • @scottydu81
      @scottydu81 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Simon should move all of his pre-beard videos to their own channel lol

  • @jefferroo
    @jefferroo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Lowell doesn't rhyme with vowel or howl, it is Lo-el like saying Joel in two syllables.

  • @MrTexasDan
    @MrTexasDan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    when he said Uranus, I had to turn on Closed Captioning, just to see.

  • @sonicguyver7445
    @sonicguyver7445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back in my day we had 9 planets! We had *Pluto* and I never heard anyone complain!
    And from what I remember Planet X is nothing but trouble. The inhabitants want to borrow Godzilla (01) and Rodan (02) then they turn them around and use them against us.

  • @WilbertvandenBosch
    @WilbertvandenBosch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    You can really tell Simon is very much interested in this subject. There is a slight "uppity" in the way he narrates this video. Very engaging indeed :-)

  • @caesarshotdogchampion8738
    @caesarshotdogchampion8738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I randomly decided to search this just now and saw you uploaded 11 hours ago. Thank you my psychic intellectual teacher

  • @tj4234
    @tj4234 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    13:30 they can vote how they like, but Pluto is still a planet to me.

    • @kingdart999
      @kingdart999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then does that mean other dwarf planets are also planets for you then?

    • @tj4234
      @tj4234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kingdart999 yeah sure. The more the merrier.

  • @stevewiles7132
    @stevewiles7132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It does exist, when it comes anywhere near us our planet goes nuts.

  • @darkstorm08
    @darkstorm08 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    ... It's the shirt...oh now I'm really paying attention... Have a good day everyone

  • @richardmercer2337
    @richardmercer2337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I once met Clyde Tombaugh! He gave a talk many years ago at our local science museum.

  • @ContentDolphin
    @ContentDolphin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    HEY GEOGRAPHICS, thanks for the amazing content I've learned many things from you! Thanks

    • @cripplegunsmith1
      @cripplegunsmith1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      These videos are better than most college courses!

  • @jacobsroadvibes6012
    @jacobsroadvibes6012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “A hidden planet beyond Uranus”
    This had me dying

    • @RedXlV
      @RedXlV 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      A couple of centuries worth of of jokes that were generated, just because Bode used the Greek name Uranus instead of sticking with the established theme and using the equivalent Roman god Caelus.
      It makes me wonder whether Bode actually knew what he was doing. After all, nobody outside England liked Herschel's proposed name of "Georgium Sidus". So maybe Bode deliberately proposed a name that would sound perfectly normal for most Europeans but not to the English.

  • @bobbytreez5615
    @bobbytreez5615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I’m currently an undergraduate Astronomy student and I accidentally solved the “Planet 9” mystery. Beyond a hypothesis, I can’t disprove it and all my simulations are on point.
    My research paper will go with my PhD application before it’s published though. I just have to check how much breathing room I have every couple of months.
    I’ve never commented on an Astronomy video before, but honestly this is the most complete and informative video covering the timeline of this subject. Very fine work man! 👏🏼

  • @DianaDeLuna
    @DianaDeLuna 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I totally did a research paper on "Nemesis Theory in the Periodicity of Mass Extinctions on Earth" (or similar title) in high school! It was 1987 and the theory blew my impressionable teenage mind.

  • @Cougarz57
    @Cougarz57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Bold accusation to assume the Sun stole an imaginary planet. 17:00

    • @jftw1
      @jftw1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      dont worry - the court case is scheduled for 3 billion years from now... justice will be served!

  • @2bonk22
    @2bonk22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yo Simon, His name is Percival Low- ell, the O is long.

  • @dougalexander7204
    @dougalexander7204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    How do you guys do it? The content of this channel is fascinating and Simons delivery is brilliant.

    • @michaeltobias3110
      @michaeltobias3110 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Simon is an excellent presenter of words

  • @brucehubbard1852
    @brucehubbard1852 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Simon. There are those that were born with a gift. Your gift was narration. Your tone and pauses and all around structure to how you tell a story is excellent. I just at times just love to listen to you. Keep it up. If you can love to hear the story of silly putty and how it came to be. Little odd but fun history.

  • @beckc101ify
    @beckc101ify 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Of course there's a Planet Nine! Pluto!

    • @LoboEye
      @LoboEye 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Then we have 17 planets by that logic.

  • @llydrsn
    @llydrsn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I don't know if it has been featured in any of Simon's channels, but the controversy about who really discovered Neptune (mathematically and visually) is also a fascinating tale. It is between an unassuming and humble John Couch Adams (who is British) and the bombastic and prodigious LeVerrier.

    • @HarryLewinASR
      @HarryLewinASR ปีที่แล้ว

      The Brits calculated or mis-calculated something and failed to discover a planet. The French calculated and with some help from the Germans found a planet. I don't think anyone but a Brit thinks there's a controversy here.

  • @paulmccloud9395
    @paulmccloud9395 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I understand the science of why, but it still makes me laugh we can see objects at the furthest reaches of the known universe, but we can't find a planet in our own solar system.

    • @Nick-ju4lw
      @Nick-ju4lw 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It changes everything when you know where to point your telescope.

    • @SuperflyGaming
      @SuperflyGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Haha gravity anomaly go brrrrrrr.....

    • @johnschneider6190
      @johnschneider6190 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Light

    • @kyleellis9177
      @kyleellis9177 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Where are your car keys, remote, wallet, and for people who remember cordless land lines wheres the phone?
      Yet I can remember which box in my attic has which Xmas decorations when all of them say Xmas. We're weird.

    • @LordJaric
      @LordJaric 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is a difference in methods. What we use to find exoplanets are telescopes in space watching hundreds of stars, at once, waiting to see if the light coming from them dims, meaning something passed between them and us. Different and easier then what was mentioned it the video as you have to know where to look to try and find it.

  • @ellsworth1956
    @ellsworth1956 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When You go looking for something Sometimes you don't find what you're looking for, but You will usually find something. Sometimes that something is something Wonderful.

    • @murakumo65
      @murakumo65 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Master oogway? Is that you?

  • @Ghani012
    @Ghani012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Summer! The perfect time to lay on the beach.... Or break your collar bone while mountain biking!

    • @vexile1239
      @vexile1239 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You've done that haven't you?