Scientists determined the color of Planet X

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Ученые определили цвет Планеты ХScientists believe that the known celestial bodies in the Planet X is most like Uranus and Neptune.

Astronomers from the US described a possible chemical and physical properties of the atmosphere potentially open Planet X, also called its possible color in the optical range.

Devoted to the study of a Preprint published on the website arXiv.org.

According to scientists, the celestial body will be as red as suggested by some scientists, and a dark blue color. Thus it would be darker Neptune, which in the optical range has a dark blue hue, and Uranium, gas shell which has a light blue color.

Ученые определили цвет Планеты Х

Scientists believe that the known celestial bodies in the Planet X is most like Uranus and Neptune. Because the temperature very low, gaseous methane its atmosphere virtually no, in contrast to the gas envelope of Neptune, where it is present. This compound, according to scientists condenseries and is located at the base of the planet’s atmosphere or clouds.

To such conclusions scientists have come, having a computer simulation of a celestial body, given currently available data. In the case that planet X is 5 to 20 times heavier than Earth, its core temperature reaches 35 to 50 Kelvin, but its radius is 3-6 times more than Earth. More precise values of these parameters depend on the ratio of hydrogen and helium contained in the outer shell of a celestial body (more details are presented in the table above).

On the possible discovery beyond the orbit of Pluto Planet X scientists reported in mid-January 2016. A potential ninth planet of the system revolves around the Sun in an elongated orbit (and inclined relative to Earth’s orbit plane) with a period of 15 thousand years.

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