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Chad Trujillo

Chad Trujillo

American astronomerWikipedia

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Oct 19, 2026

speaker_1HOST
13:48
They did.
speaker_1HOST
13:49
Astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott S. Shepard were the pioneers who first formally described this bizarre clustering of extreme trans-Neptunian objects in a peer-reviewed setting.
GorgorodHOST
14:01
What did they propose?
speaker_1HOST
14:02
They looked at the sparse data available at the time and proposed that this alignment was being caused by a massive unknown planet residing in a roughly circular orbit somewhere between 200 and 300 astronomical units away.
Darren MarlarHOST
33:04
In an orbit somewhere between Mars and Jupiter, but most often leaves it lost in the blackness of the outer solar system.
Darren MarlarHOST
33:12
The Nibiru hypothesis is partially supported by the work of astronomers Chad Trujillo and Scott Shepard, who in 2014 demonstrated the possibility of a large planetary body lurking on the outer reaches of the solar system.
Darren MarlarHOST
33:27
Their hypothesis doesn't, though, allow for the super-Earth-sized planet wandering into the asteroid belt.
Darren MarlarHOST
33:34
Nevertheless, Salla is sure that these two groups of aliens, who he collectively calls the Anukai, periodically visit humanity, in a 3,600-year cycle that coincides with the nearest approaches to Earth.
Alison PriceHOST
7:36
I have a link there.
Alison PriceHOST
7:37
And a guy called Chad Trujillo.
Arwynne O'NeillHOST
7:39
Trujillo.
Alison PriceHOST
7:40
Okay.

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