What planet is missing?

In 2006 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) demoted the much-loved Pluto
Pluto
It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Sun. It is the largest known trans-Neptunian object by volume, by a small margin, but is slightly less massive than Eris. Like other Kuiper belt objects, Pluto is made primarily of ice and rock and is much smaller than the inner planets.
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from its position as the ninth planet from the Sun to one of five “dwarf planets.” The IAU had likely not anticipated the widespread outrage that followed the change in the solar system's lineup.
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Is there a missing planet?

Astronomers searching for our solar system's elusive Planet Nine — a theoretical world that may lurk deep in a cloud of icy rocks far beyond the orbit of Neptune — have come up short once again.
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What is the most forgotten planet?

Mercury: The Forgotten Planet.
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Has any planet been destroyed?

Eventually, some worlds could be kicked out of orbit completely and become consigned to floating through space unattached to any stars. Raymond calculated that roughly 5 billion rocky worlds have been destroyed by gas giants.
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Is there a Black planet?

Consequently, HD 149026b might be the blackest known planet in the Universe, in addition to the hottest. The temperature of this dark and balmy planet was taken with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. While the planet reflects no visible light, its heat causes it to radiate a little visible and a lot of infrared light.
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What If Just One Planet Disappeared from the Solar System



Which is the ghost planet?

Nibiru. Author Zecharia Sitchin claimed in The 12th Planet (1976) that ancient Sumerian texts revealed the existence of a planet called Nibiru, which circles the Sun every 3,600 years on a long elliptical orbit like a comet and passes between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter at its perihelion.
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What is the mystery planet?

Venus: The Mysterious Planet.
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Is Planet 9 a black hole?

A group of astronomers, including Avi Loeb at Harvard University, suggested Planet Nine may be a tiny black hole somewhere out in the Oort Cloud. If Planet Nine turns out to be Black Hole Nine instead, it's probably about the size of a grapefruit but about 5 to 10 times the mass of Earth.
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What planet got kicked out?

Poor Pluto. On August 24, 2006 at the International Astronomy Union (IAU) General Assembly the ninth planet was scrubbed only 76 years after its discovery. Even weirder is that it actually got voted out, and by astronomers, not planetary scientists.
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How many lost planets are there?

Four Of Our Planets Are Missing. NASA Announces 5,000th New Alien World But Some Are Imposters Say Scientists.
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What planets have humans gone?

Only our two nearest neighbours Venus and Mars have been landed on. Landing on another planet is technically challenging and many attempted landings have failed.
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Will Earth be a black hole?

It is incredibly unlikely that Earth would ever fall into a black hole. This is because, at a distance, their gravitational pull is no more compelling than a star of the same mass.
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Which planet is gone in black hole?

Planet nine might be a primordial black hole

The closest confirmed black hole to Earth lies in a triple-star system called HR 6819, roughly 1,000 light-years away. It's about four times the mass of the sun — comparatively light in the scope of the universe.
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Is there a 11th planet?

Thus, Ceres is the fifth planet, Pluto the tenth and Eris the eleventh.
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What is Zombie planet?

Any planets orbiting a star when it goes supernova would be obliterated. Mysteriously though, a handful of “zombie planets” have been detected orbiting neutron stars. And they are some of the weirdest worlds in the cosmos.
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Is the Pink planet real?

Named GJ 504b, the planet is made of pink gas. It's similar to Jupiter, a giant gas planet in our own solar system. But GJ 504b is four times more massive. At 460°F, it's the temperature of a hot oven, and it's the planet's intense heat that causes it to glow.
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Is there a planet called Nightmare?

A spokesman said: “The nightmare world of HD 189733 b is the killer you never see coming,” said US space agency Nasa. “To the human eye, this far-off planet looks bright blue. But any space traveller confusing it with the friendly skies of Earth would be badly mistaken. “The weather on this world is deadly.
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What is the evil planet?

Welcome to Venus. The second planet from the Sun is often coined Earth's 'evil twin' on account of it being almost the same size but instead plagued with a poisonous atmosphere of carbon dioxide and a sweltering 470ºC surface.
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What planet is not a God?

Earth is the only planet not named after a Roman god or goddess, but it is associated with the goddess Terra Mater (Gaea to the Greeks). In mythology, she was the first goddess on Earth and the mother of Uranus. The name Earth comes from Old English and Germanic.
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What is the most feared planet?

Saturn is the planet that is the most feared because it is ultimately about taking responsibility for our success and failures.
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What planet is GREY?

The planets of the solar system are varied in their appearance. Mercury is slate gray while Venus is pearly white, Earth a vibrant blue, and Mars a dusky red.
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What is the coldest planet?

Neptune is an incredible three billion miles away from the Sun. However, the coldest planet is not Neptune, but Uranus – even though Uranus is a billion miles closer to the Sun than Neptune. Uranus holds the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in the Solar System: a very chilly -224℃.
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What is diamond planet?

NASA has taken a closer look at 55 Cancri e, an exoplanet that earned the nickname "diamond planet" due to research that suggests it has a carbon-rich composition. Even if we could reach these diamond exoplanets, they wouldn't be appealing places to visit.
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How will the Universe end?

Eventually, the entire contents of the universe will be crushed together into an impossibly tiny space – a singularity, like a reverse Big Bang. Different scientists give different estimates of when this contraction phase might begin. It could be billions of years away yet.
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