Planet X

Mysteries of Science

Fun Kids

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.6 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ciaran and Dan look at what makes a planet and whether there's a mysterious extra planet – Planet X – just beyond Neptune, lurking in our cosmic neighbourhood.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to an intergalactic episode of Mysteries of Science.
0:05.0	My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science and Nature, the monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior.
0:10.0	And I'm Kieran, the features editor.
0:13.0	In each issue of science and nature, we explore the universe through in-depth features, news stories, images, interviews with top experts, and much more.
0:22.3	And in each episode of this very podcast, we investigate a weird or unexplainable area of science or the natural world.
0:30.9	We've looked into so many great mysteries in this first series of podcasts.
0:34.9	But one of my favorites has to be the aliens episode and our investigation into
0:40.3	extraterrestrials. Tell you what, Kieran, how do you fancy taking another journey into space?
0:45.6	Well, I'll never say no to a journey into space. Are there any other mysteries for us to solve,
0:51.1	though? I thought sort of aliens was the only big question mark about the universe we had left.
0:55.8	Aha, good question. Well, you might think that, but I've got a planet-sized mystery for us to investigate today.
1:03.8	And even the brightest brains at the world's top space agencies haven't found a solution to it yet.
1:10.1	A planet X is this mysterious planet, okay? So
1:13.6	X stands for unknown and it's thought to exist in the far-flung darkest depths of our solar
1:20.3	system. Some people say there's evidence that planet X must be out there, but nobody's actually
1:26.5	ever found the planet itself.
1:28.3	So it may not exist at all.
1:30.3	Okay, I have so many questions to ask, but let's just jump into the investigation.
1:35.3	Who have we got to help us out today, Diane?
1:37.3	We'll be joined by an expert from the National Space Academy in Leicester,
1:42.3	a fellow from the Royal Astronomical Society and a planetary scientist from NASA.
1:47.0	I'm excited. Let's blast off into space in search of the solar system's most mysterious alien world, Planet X.
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