Showing posts with label Neptune. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neptune. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2026

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

Friday, September 19, 2025

Organic molecules don’t mean life. And mysterious methane and rings in the Kuiper Belt.

  Organic molecules don’t mean life. And mysterious methane and rings in the Kuiper Belt. 




“An artist’s impression of plumes erupting onto the surface of Enceladus. Its fellow moon Titan is seen in the sky, and the distant Sun beyond. Credit: ESA/Science Office”

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has long dazzled scientists with its icy plumes that spew water and mysterious organic molecules into space, fueling hopes of a habitable ocean beneath. But new experiments suggest the story may be more complicated.”

“Researchers found that radiation bombarding Enceladus’s frozen surface could be producing many of the same organics detected in the plumes — meaning they might not come from the hidden ocean at all. This twist forces scientists to rethink how we interpret signs of habitability on icy moons.” (The Shocking Twist in the Search for Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon)



“Electron microscopy revealed chain structures resembling living organisms in meteorite fragment ALH84001” (Wikipedia, Allan Hills 84001). If those remnants are bacteria, they can be from Earth. There is a possibility that those bacteria. If they are bacteria. that came from Antarctic ice, and they traveled to the meteorite. Because its heat “called” those bacteria. Anyway, that meteorite is polluted. The temperature in Antarctica is not so low that it could keep that meteorite sterile. 




“An image of the rock named “Cheyava Falls” in the “Bright Angel formation” in Jezero crater, Mars collected by the WATSON camera onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. The image shows a rust-colored, organic matter bearing sedimentary mudstone sandwiched between bright white layers of another composition. The small dark blue/green to black colored nodules and ring-shaped reaction fronts that have dark rims, and bleached interiors are proposed to be potential biosignatures. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

“NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered mysterious mudstones in Mars’ Jezero Crater that contain organic carbon and strange mineral textures.” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

“These features, possibly shaped by redox reactions similar to those fueled by microbes on Earth, may represent potential biosignatures.” (ScitechDaily, Strange Mars Mudstones May Hold the Strongest Clues Yet of Ancient Life)

Confirmed life in our solar system is limited to planet Earth. All other harbors for life are hypothetical. It’s possible that there have been some kind of lifeforms on Mars, but before there is any laboratory analysis about samples brought from Mars, nothing is more uncertain than uncertain. NASA says that there is “strong evidence” that some primitive lifeforms, like prokaryotic bacteria, could have lived on Mars a long time ago. 

Confirmation about that thing can be very difficult. If there have been some bacteria on Mars, the thin atmosphere that lets UV-radiation reach the Mars surface can destroy all genetic material. From those bacteria.  Those remnants would be hollows in stones. Without DNA or RNA, it is impossible to confirm that some form is from bacteria. 

There are strange forms in some meteorites, but the problem is that those meteorites, including Allan Hills 84001 from Antarctica, are polluted. That means those primitive bacterial fossils, if they are bacterial fossils, can be from Earth. There have also been organic materials in Saturn's Enceladus moons' icy geysers. There is a possibility that these organic materials are formed due to sunlight. 

Maybe Saturn will pull ions to Enceladus, and that can cause the formation of those organic compounds. But as we know, there is a possibility that there can be lifeforms in that icy world. Otherwise, Organic molecules can form. Because of some kind of chemical reactions that have no biological origin. 





“An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake. Sharp emission peaks near 3.3 microns reveal methane in the gas phase above Makemake’s surface. A continuum model (cyan) is overlaid for comparison; the gas emission peaks are identified where the observed spectrum rises above the continuum. An artistic rendering of Makemake’s surface is shown in the background. Credit: Courtesy of S. Protopapa, I. Wong/SwRI/STScI/NASA/ESA/CSA” (ScitechDaily, Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time)


Telescopes noticed gas on the dwarf planet Makemake. 

The surprise was that the gas JWST detected is methane. That means there are some chemical reactions on those distant worlds. Those dwarf planets like Makemake are so far away that they cannot get methane from places like Titan. And that is one of the most interesting things in the universe. There is a possibility that weak energy from the distant sun, along with some ions, can have so much energy that. It can push carbon and hydrogen together in a very low-energy but stable environment. 

 Makemake is far away from Earth in the Kuiper Belt. That dwarf planet is one of the coldest places in our solar system. That’s why existing gas is a surprise. But conditions in the Kuiper Belt are incredibly stable. Makemake can pull gases from space around it. And that thing makes it possible that those dwarf planets have a thin atmosphere. Those objects called trans-Neptunian objects TNOs are so far away from the sun that the solar wind has no force to blow those atmospheres away. And that’s why some dwarf planets like Makemake can have atmospheres. 





“Artist's impression of Quaoar with its ring and its moon Weywot” (Wikipedia, Quaoar)





“Quaoar compared to the Earth and the Moon” (Wikipedia, Quaoar)


Researchers noticed that the dwarf planet Quaoar may have another moon or some unknown ring system. Quaoar has a ring system and one known moon. That is an incredible thing, because that dwarf planet is very small. The ring system can form around that dwarf planet when its moon acts like Saturn’s and other gas planets’ rings. Shepherd moons that trap particles between them. 

The problem is that the shepherd moons are always on both sides of their ring. There is a possibility that Quaoar’s moon Weywot and its gravity can trap those particles between Quaoar and Weywot, but is that moon’s and Quaoar’s gravity so strong that they can trap those particles? 

But those rings are in the place where those planets’ Van Allen belts are. Shepherd moons from holes between rings. But the plasma ring. Around those gas giants is the thing that traps most of those particles. That means Quaoar must, or should have, some kind of magnetic field. 

That dwarf planet is mysterious. It's too small for internal nuclear reactions to form those plasma rings. Its moon seems very far away from that dwarf planet. And that is one of the most interesting things about that distant and mysterious object. 




https://phys.org/news/2025-09-discovery-moon-orbiting-mysterious-distant.html


https://scitechdaily.com/the-shocking-twist-in-the-search-for-life-on-saturns-icy-moon/


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


https://scitechdaily.com/strange-mars-mudstones-may-hold-the-strongest-clues-yet-of-ancient-life/


https://scitechdaily.com/webb-telescope-detects-gas-on-distant-dwarf-planet-makemake-for-the-first-time/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Hills_84001


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


Thursday, December 15, 2022

Why do some planets have rings?

Saturn


We know many planets that have some kind of ring system. And the most well-known of those planets is Saturn. All gas giants in our solar system have a ring system that orbits them. So there are many theories about the origin of those rings. 

There is the possibility that forming of the rings is unique. So that means there are more than one reasons why some planets have rings. But if we are thinking about the gas giants in our solar system we must realize that those planets are more distant than Earth. 

So solar wind in that area is weaker than in the Earth's distance. And that means the particle (or ion) flow from the Sun would not blow those particles away. That explains why Earth has no rings. The reason for that is the solar winds. That are blowing sand or some other particles away from the Earth's orbiter. 



"The backlit (of Saturn's) E ring, with Enceladus, silhouetted against it. The moon's south polar jets erupt brightly below it." (Wikipedia/Rings of Saturn)

There may be many things that are forming ring systems for planets. There are three of those theories. And maybe there are many other reasons why some planets have rings. And some have not. 


*Plasma- or Van Allen rings of the planets are capturing sand bites that travel at the solar system. 


*In the case of Saturn, the shepherd moons are also playing their role in forming and anchoring the ring system. The shepherd moons are moons. That is orbiting the ring system on both sides of it. And the gravitational fields anchoring the objects in their places. 


*The Van Allen belts could capture small particles. And that explains why Uranus' rings seem to have no shepherd moons. The Van Allen ring or plasma ring can capture very light and slow-speed objects. So that means there could be many reasons why some planets have rings. 


*If the planet's distance is high enough from the Sun solar wind would not blow that dust away. 


*Destruction of the ancient moon can explain ring systems that involve large particles. 


*That moon could be destroyed by cosmic impact. Or tidal forces of the planet and its other moons can destroy that ancient moon. 


The planets with ring systems 

a) Jupiter's rings

a) "A schema of Jupiter's ring system showing the four main components. For simplicity, Metis and Adrastea are depicted as sharing their orbit. (In reality, Metis is very slightly closer to Jupiter.)" (Wikipedia, Rings of Jupiter) 


a2)



"Metis orbiting at the edge of Jupiter's main ring, as imaged by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2007" (Wikipedia/Rings of Jupiter)


b) Saturn's rings



"Side view of Saturn system, showing Enceladus in relation to the E Ring" (Wikipedia/Rings of Saturn)

b2)

"The full set of rings, imaged as Saturn eclipsed the Sun from the vantage of the Cassini orbiter, 1.2 million km distant, on 19 July 2013 (brightness is exaggerated). Earth appears as a dot at 4 o'clock, between the G and E rings." (Wikipedia/Rings of Saturn)


c) Uranus rings


"The scheme of Uranus's ring-moon system. Solid lines denote rings; dashed lines denote orbits of moons". (Wikipedia/Rings of Uranus)




"The scheme of Neptune's ring-moon system. Solid lines denote rings; dashed lines denote orbits of moons".

d) Neptune rings



d2) "Rings of Neptune imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam instrument" (Wikipedia/Rings of Neptune)




*There is the possibility that the planet capture the large dwarf planet and then the tidal forces will rip that dwarf planet in pieces. 


*In that case. The shepherd moons or moons that are orbiting the planet at both sides of the ring system are anchoring those objects in their places with their gravitational effects. 


And that means there is a possibility the plasma rings or Van Allen rings of giant planets capture dust, asteroids, and comets that travel in solar systems. And at least in cases where the ring system is formed of sand or other way saying small-size particles. That is the reason why some gas planets have rings. 

Another reason could be the ancient moon that is broken by cosmic impacts. That thing can be a reason, for planets like Saturn have larger objects in their rings. When that hypothetical moon is destroyed. The particles that are remaining of that ancient moon left to orbit Saturn. 

In some of this theory's other versions, Saturn collided with an asteroid cloud that could be the remnant of some ancient dwarf planet and some of those remnants remained to orbit that planet as the well-known ring system. 


https://scitechdaily.com/why-are-some-planets-surrounded-by-rings/amp/


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


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


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


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


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





By the way...

The idea of the solar ring- or ring-shaped solar panels is taken from the planetary rings and one hoax theory. 

There is one UFO theory that I want to mention here. That theory is that the Uranus ring system is the solar panels that are orbiting the gas planet. Today that theory is crushed, but it gave an idea that maybe in the future Earth and some other planets or space colonies will get their power from solar panels that orbit the planets. 

The energy will transport to those colonies in the form of radio- laser or microwaves. That kind of solar ring or extremely thin silicone panels might solve the energy problems of the future. If those solar rings or ring-shaped solar panels are rotating or orbiting the Earth or some other planet the gravitational and centripetal force would have the same power, and they would anchor that solar panel in place. But that thing requires that the panels will move all the time. 

It's possible that between the center planet and the inner edge of the silicone panels is the frame. The orbiting silicone panel delivers energy to that stable frame. And that frame sends energy to the receiving stations on Earth. 


Image: Pinterest




Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Planet 9 causes discussions again.


"Illustration of the hypothetical Planet 9. Credit: R. Hurt/IPAC, Caltech" (Phys.org/Planet 9 is running out of places to hide)


Hypothetical Planet 9 or 10, if you think that Pluto is the planet is a mystery. And maybe it remains a mystery. There are billions of theories about what that mystery could be. And nobody ever detected that planet. The only observations about that planet are gravitational interactions between something unseen and planet Neptune. 

In some visions that planet would be a miniature black hole. Or maybe it was some rogue planet that traveled near our solar system. Nobody has seen that planet yet. But sometimes there is intensive research for finding that planet. But all attempts to find that mysterious gravitational object are failed. 

The "Planet 9" is the name of an unknown anomaly in the trajectory of planet Neptune. And the thing is that Planet 9 is not a red dwarf called "Nemesis". There is suspicion that "Planet 9" is some kind of density in the Kuiper Belt.

Or it might be the cloud of dust just outside the Kuiper belt. One explanation for that "planet" is that the members of the Alpha Centauri system (Alpha Centauri A and B, Proxima Centauri, and Luhman-16) would go in a straight line. And that causes the gravitational anomaly. 

There is also the possibility that the energy impulse from the black hole or somewhere else causes the anomaly in the trajectory of planet Neptune. The interesting thing about Planet 9 is that we cannot see it. The anomalies of the trajectory of the Neptune were real. But the thing that causes them remains a mystery. 

One of the possibilities is that hypothetical Planet 9 kicked off from orbiting trajectory. The distance to that hypothetical object would be so high that even a small gravitational effect could pull that planet out from its trajectory. 

Could planet 9 be some kind of rogue planet? In some hypotheses, planet 9 is the old planet from maybe the Van Maanen system. That means there is no radioactive material left. And that planet is the zombie. Maybe planet 9 just passed our solar system. 

If we would find that planet the surface temperature of it could be the same as the cosmic background. Which is 3 kelvin. Or even lower. That makes that planet extremely hard to detect. If the temperature on that planet is lower than 3 Kelvin. That means energy travels to that planet. But even though the surface temperature is precise 3 kelvin that planet is hard to detect, because there is no infrared radiation. 

The surface of that hypothetical planet would be in superconducting condition. And it makes the planet an extremely large size quantum hard disk where signals remain in their form. That means all radiation that is left from Earth and impacts Planet 9 will be stored on the surface of that planet in the form where it is transmitted. 

But there is one interesting hypothesis. That is that Planet 9 is formed of dark matter. So planet 9 exists but the only observable thing about that planet is its gravitational field. 

That means we could not see or touch that planet. That planet would be only the gravitational effect that will cause anomalies to the trajectory of Neptune. But the thing is that mystery remains. Planet 9 waits for its finder. And maybe that planet ever found. Today scientists have better tools than ever before. And they should find that planet. But if the "planet" is a small nebula where the bites are near zero kelvin, that thing is hard to see. 



https://astronomy.com/news/2020/07/is-planet-nine-a-black-hole-or-a-planet-harvard-scientists-suggest-a-way-to-find-out


https://phys.org/news/2022-08-planet.html


https://www.space.com/dark-matter-planets-blown-up-detection


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


Saturday, August 17, 2019

Why asteroid Haumea in Kuiper belt has rings?


Image I


Why asteroid Haumea in Kuiper belt has rings?

One of the most interesting particles of our solar system is the asteroid named Haumea. The thing what makes it interesting is that this asteroid has rings, and that's why it could be named as the "Saturn asteroid". But how those rings might form?

The explanation for this strange asteroid would be that the solar wind at the outer solar system is so weak. If the asteroid is a very magnetic particle, that means that it could capture the small dust particles around it as the same way, what bigger planets are making.

The rings are actually in the place, where the Van Allen zones or plasma rings of the planet are. The thing is that the rings of Haumea are forming the same way with the other planetary rings, and one thing what is a mystery in the case of Haumea, is how it has got this magnet field?

Has it travel through the magnet field of some planet of our solar system, being part of some other planet ring system, and the colliding would throw that particle to Kuiper belt. Or could it come from another solar system, and the sun could capture it to the Kuiper belt at the outer solar system.

The thing is that if Haumea would be closer to the sun, the solar wind would blow those rings away immediately. And this thing is why the inner planets have not visible rings. The solar wind would blow those particles away immediately, and the thing what makes Haumea interesting is that the magnet field of that asteroid must be very strong if we would compare it to other asteroids. 

And the thing how small asteroid would get the magnet field would happen that it would travel through the powerful magnetic field, what will turn the bite of iron to a magnet and the reason why the magnet field would not get weaker is that the electricity what causes this phenomenon can conduct anywhere. If we would someday send the probe to search asteroids like Haumea, we must realize that if we would touch that particle, we would conduct the electricity away from that particle.

If Haymea would be in the superconducting condition, we would send probe near it and then follow the actions like the oscillation of the magnet field of Haymea, and that would help us to find, where that asteroid has got this strange magnet field. Has it just being a member of the asteroid cloud of the rings of Neptune and Uranus, or does it come from another solar system?

The idea is that the oscillation of the magnet field of the particle, what has given that field to Haymea has been stored in certain form, what is similar to the oscillation of the magnet field, what has magnetized Haymea, and that thing benefit by comparing those oscillations to the magnet field of the planets of our solar system. And maybe that would tell, where that strange particle is coming from.

Image I:

https://www.space.com/38432-dwarf-planet-haumea-has-rings.html

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