Strange object nicknamed 'Niku' is traveling backwards

nivek · Aug 15, 2016

ASTRONOMERS are confused by the recent discovery of a mystery object orbiting around the sun backwards.

Located in the outer solar system past Neptune, the object was spotted by the Pan-STARRS telescope and has been moving in an opposite direction to the rest of the planets.

This abnormal celestial behaviour has seen the object dubbed “Niku” — the Chinese adjective for rebellious.

Queens University astronomer Michele Bannister said planetary systems are defined by the flat plane of dust and gas surrounding them, with the angular momentum forcing everything to spin the same direction.

“It’s the same thing with a spinning top, every particle is spinning the same direction,” she toldNew Scientist.

So the fact the object is moving in the opposite direction to the rest of the planets has Ms Bannister puzzled.

“It’s wonderful that it’s so confusing,” she said. “I’m looking forward to seeing what the theoretical analysts do once they get their hands on this one.”
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Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune

Toroid · Aug 15, 2016

It could be a rogue moon or debris from the destruction of Tiamat.

http://www.bustle.com/articles/1785...-know-about-the-mystery-object-beyond-neptune

According to Popular Mechanics, the object, which is less than 125 miles across, is traveling the opposite way of most other orbits in our solar system, on a plane that's tilted 110 degrees past everything else, and it's still traveling upward.
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nivek · Aug 16, 2016

I wonder if it's a planetoid like Pluto or smaller that collided with another in the outer region of the solar system causing it to change direction...This could have happened thousands or millions of years ago and we just recently found it...

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