Gunter scientists, ‘Ammonite, located beyond Neptune and’ Trans-Neptunian Object (TNO) ‘is classified as an object reported. ‘Ammonite’s orbit is elliptical, indicating that it makes it special scientists, this feature,’ Ammonite ” sedna ‘, such as only three more similar to’ sednoid ‘group announced. ‘Sednoids’ are described as rare objects above 60 astronomical unit (AU).
Astronomers suggest the existence of a large planet that has not yet been discovered, which they call ‘planet nine’ to explain the orbits of these objects. However, the orbit of ‘Ammonite’ is different from the current ‘sednoids’. According to the researchers, this makes the ‘nine’ hypothesis of ‘planet nine’. ‘Ammonite’s orbit has been stable for about 4.5 billion years since the formation of the Solar System, according to computer simulations. The object was first identified in 2023 with the ‘Subaru Teleskobu’, but the final definition was confirmed in 2024 with the Canadian-France-Hawaii telescope and archive data. The discovery was made within the scope of the observation program ‘FOSSIL (Formation of the Outer Solar System: An Icy Legacy). The program aims to investigate glacier objects in the remote areas of the Solar System.
‘Ammonite’ is located in a orbit region that has not been observed so far. This region represented an interval of an unknown orbit, which celestial scientists called ‘Q-GAP’ and why it was empty. According to the authors of the study, ‘Ammonite’ completed an important missing ring by filling this gap.
The joint author of the study. Yukun Huang says that the orbit of Ammonite does not agree with other sednoids, and it may be a situation that questioned the existence of the planet nine. In the formation of these objects, Huang says that a planet that was found in the Solar System but then thrown out can be effective.
