IPMU Colloquium

Speaker: Mike Brown (Caltech)
Title: The Search for Planet Nine
Date (JST): Wed, Apr 11, 2018, 15:30 - 17:00
Place: Lecture Hall
Abstract: We have recently suggested that a giant planet well beyond Neptune is required to explain unexpected clustering in the orbits of very distant and eccentric Kuiper belt objects. I will present the evidence for this clustering as well as the dynamical evidence that a giant planet is responsible. Finally, I will discuss prospects for directly detecting this planet in the near future and what it might tell us about the formation of the solar system.
Seminar Video: [VIDEO]