Well... I think that pretty much settles it then, doesn't it?

I propose that, henceforth, we refer to the newest member of our solar system as "Dorris"at every available opportunity, and let the viral nature of the internet do the rest.

NAOS

I wonder if he thinks ANYONE is 100% dick.

I'm sure i've been hearing for years that it was likely there was a large planet far out in the solar system. Maybe i'm getting mixed up between guesswork and/or findings that were later disproved, but the media seem to find this a lot more of a revelation than the astronomers i know.

Yeah, there was that whole "Planet X" thing in the early nineties, and the assumption was that it was a planet with a highly eccentric orbit. I think I did a report on it in the second grade.

I don't recall what the evidence for it was, though, and that would make a difference. I don't think they had anything like the data we have now on the orbits of trans-Neptunian objects so it must have been based on something else, and I suppose that would make this "Planet IX" a different theory from "Planet X."