After Pluto’s ouster, a new planet for our solar system?

Scientists at a Japanese University said on Thursday that they believed another planet up to two-thirds of the Earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system. The researchers of Kobe university which happens to be in western Japan conclude that it was only a matter of time before the mysterious “Planet X” was found. The possibility if high that a yet unknown planet measuring 30% to 70% of Earth’s mass exists in the outer edges of the solar system. They said that if the research is conducted on a wide scale, the planet should be discovered in less than a decade. Just two years back, all of the school textbooks were rewritten when Pluto was removed from the list of planets in the solar system. Pluto originally was discovered by an American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 in the so called Kuiper belt, a chain of icy debris in the outer reaches of solar system. In 2006, nearly a decade after Tom’s death, the International Astronomical ruled that the celestial body was merely a dwarf planet in the cluttered Kuiper belt.

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