Did you know there might be a hidden planet in our solar system? We usually count eight planets, starting from the closest to the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. But some scientists believe there could be a ninth planet, sometimes called Planet Nine.
This mystery planet might be orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune, in a place called the Kuiper Belt. The Kuiper Belt is a zone filled with icy objects.
Astronomers in Japan, along with the country’s National Astronomical Observatory, have been studying how things in the Kuiper Belt move. They noticed something interesting. The behaviour of some objects there suggests there might be a big planet hiding in the Kuiper Belt.
This new planet could be about three times bigger than Earth, but it’s incredibly cold, so it wouldn’t support life as we know it.
The discovery of a possible planet near the Kuiper Belt is exciting because it could mean there are more planets yet to be found in our solar system.
A long time ago, Pluto used to be considered the ninth planet, but in 2006, scientists decided to call it a dwarf planet because it’s much smaller than the other eight.
very interesting
I loved reading it because, I never knew that maybe chocolate might be gone in the future!
save the chocolate…
I enjoyed this reading because
it show what climate changes does!!
they might have to move most chocolate into a colder place, since the climate clock is getting low
so temperature might get higher.
i love chocolate
I’m allergic to dairy, but this makes me sad for my best friends all around NZ (don’t think it’s weird because I actually do). And my chocolate loving cousin, her name is Dana (I’m from South Korea and she told me how to spell her name in Korean but its not pronounced like Dana).
I know that there are chocolate lovers around the world so, poor them or if you like chocolate poor you (even though I’m allergic to dairy, or to make it easy dairy products: cheese, milk, butter etc).