Austin science students excited about 'Planet 9' 1-20-16

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Channel: FOX 7 Austin · 2016 · News & Politics

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Researchers at Caltech think a ninth planet is out there -- and it's 5,000 times bigger than Pluto.

"The object itself is likely is more massive than the Earth probably a little bit less massive than Neptune," said Konstantin Batygin, Caltech researcher.

Planet 9, if it really exists, is billions of miles away and would take 20,000 years to orbit the sun compared to the 1 here on Earth.

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