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Astronomycast, episode 410, Planet 9, facts in fiction.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand only what we know but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and the director of Cosmolquest. Hey Pam, how you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Great, done for like three weeks of travel, looking forward to kind of getting my life back in order. I still, once again, I have no idea how you travel so much without just everything falling apart. I just can't do it.

I can generally work on airplanes as long as the airplanes are not vibrating so hard that it's impossible to focus on my device.

I had that yet last night, but next week I fly off to the Czech Republic and I'll be at the academic Film Festival of Aloe Mork. But other than that, I'm mostly home until May.

So good. I'm mostly home until the beginning of June and there's an astronomy festival happening in New Mexico that I'm going to be speaking at. So that's awesome.

I'll give you more information as we get closer to it.

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So the discovery planet nine has caused a wonderful, confusing uproar and a flood of misinformation in the news and social media.

So we'll sort of what we actually know, what things just aren't true and what things might be possible.

Now, when we started Astronomy Cast so many years ago, our first episode was about how we lost the planet.

It was. Yes, we lost Pluto thanks to Michael Brown.

But Mike Brown take it, but Mike Brown also give it.

And so here we are low these many years later. And Mike Brown and team have potentially delivered us a new planet, planet nine, which needs a new name.

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