In 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered the fabled 'Ninth Planet' (or 'Planet X') while working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. The existence of this body had been predicted previously based on perturbations in the orbit of Ura
Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune "We found no subsets of the inner three giant planets would do to recover Pluto's vZLK oscillation; all three – Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus – were necessary," said Malhotra."But what is it about these planets that [are] essential to Pluto's vZLK oscillation?"
As Malhotra indicated, this yielded a single parameter representing the effect of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus , which was equivalent to the effect of an"oblate Sun." These results are likely to have significant implications for future studies of the outer Solar System and its orbital dynamics.
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