{"id":362,"date":"2016-01-21T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/?p=362"},"modified":"2016-01-21T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T10:20:44","slug":"astronomers-say-a-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-beyond-pluto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/astronomers-say-a-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-beyond-pluto\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune\u2014but as yet unseen\u2014orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system\u2019s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/01\/feature-astronomers-say-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-unseen-solar-system\">Astronomers say a Neptune-sized planet lurks beyond Pluto | Science | AAAS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune\u2014but as yet unseen\u2014orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system\u2019s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/astronomers-say-a-neptune-sized-planet-lurks-beyond-pluto\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyoftheuniverse.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}