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It´s not about the legendary
Nibiru described in the

Babylonian texts but of its

existence far beyond the

remote Kuiper belt, which
still remains a mystery.

s much as science has advanced
there are still many aspects that we
don´t know about like how and why
we are here. Or what is the same:
what makes up the cosmos and what
are the mysteries that we still have
Ato solve about its functioning. It is
a puzzle of which we are slowly putting the pieces to-
gether, since the magnitude of the mission is such that
Humanity still doesn´t have sufficient technological
resources to study those extremely distant confines.

One of those enigmas in which scientists are absorbed
in recent decades is in the study of a planet that would This enigma began to be investigated at the beginning
be found in the confines of the Solar System. In that of the 20th century. At that time they doubted the or-
remote area, behind the ice giants Uranus and Nep- bits of the ice giants and, in fact, we owe the term Plan-
tune we find the Kuiper belt, which contains two fa- et X to the American astronomer Percival Lowell, who
mous bodies. One is well known, Pluto, the second in 1906 decided that its existence was the only pos-
somewhat less, Arrokoth which means heaven in the sible explanation for orbital anomalies. In 1930, Pluto
language of the Native American Powhatan tribe. Ar- was discovered, but given its small dimensions it was
rokoth is, to date, the farthest world that the New quickly discarded. Their mass could not disturb the or-
Horizons spacecraft has ever reported back. bits of the ice giants, and on the other hand it was ruled
out that they were anomalous.
The bodies present in the Kuiper belt should move
according to the influence of the planets of the Solar Decades later, the issue reappeared when it was found
System and the Sun. However, for almost 20 years that in the Kuiper belt, innumerable bodies have their
strange orbital movements have been observed in orbits influenced by "something" that drags them in
that area. The most logical explanation is that there is the same gravitational direction. Today the research
a large planet beyond Neptune that we have not yet continues but it is complicated given its remoteness
detected but that would be the cause of these orbital and how little sunlight an object at such a great dis-
disturbances: Planet 9 or Planet “X”, due to its un- tance reflects. Along with the Planet 9 theory, there
known nature. To affect the orbit of other bodies, its is another that states that it could also be a primor-
size would be enormous, 10 times the Earth, as well dial black hole, since they also exert an influence on
as its own orbit around the Sun, between 10,000 and the orbits of distant objects in the Outer Solar System.
20,000 years. Will we ever get to reveal this mystery?