The Arizona Fireball and Planet Nine’s Origins
An asteroid streaked across Arizona’s night sky, and we have a new theory on where the hypothetical Planet Nine came from.
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Sources:
Fireball:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/fireball-lights-pre-dawn-sky-over-arizona
http://www.space.com/33065-brilliant-arizona-fireball-video.html
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/06/bright-fireball-over-arizona/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/06/03/thursdays-super-bright-arizona-meteor-was-traveling-over-40000-mph/
http://www.fighter-planes.com/jetmach1.htm
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/altitude-plane-flight-100359.html
Planet Nine:
http://www.space.com/33041-planet-nine-captured-exoplanet.html
http://mnrasl.oxfordjournals.org/content/460/1/L109
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/41561/20160607/planet-nine-know-mysterious-world-potential-threat-earth.htm
Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FA-18_going_transonic.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013_Chelyabinsk_meteor_trace.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planet_Nine_Orbit.svg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Star-forming_region_S106_(captured_by_the_Hubble_Space_Telescope).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Planet_nine_artistic_plain.png
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