Michael E. Brown
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Oct 19, 2026
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Our next question comes from Bob.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Bob says, Mike Brown says that Pluto isn't a planet.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
I agree, but for a different reason.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Its motion is not always concave to the sun.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
That comes from Bob Argyle in Ogden, Utah in the United States.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
Thank you, Bob.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
I Well, first of all, Mike Brown, we should point out that he has earned the nickname the man who killed Pluto.
Andrew DunkleyHOST
He was one of the astronomers that got behind its reclassification back in 2005-ish.
speaker_1HOST
The definitive theoretical framework, the model we really think of today when we say Planet 9, was formalized two years later in 2016.
GorgorodHOST
This was the major paper by Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown at Caltech, right?
speaker_1HOST
Yes.
speaker_1HOST
Batygin and Brown utilized highly rigorous N-body simulations.
Arwynne O'NeillHOST
... new, you know, whatnot.
Arwynne O'NeillHOST
Um, famously when they named Eris, uh, originally Mike Brown had wanted to call her Xena after Xena: Warrior Princess-
Alison PriceHOST
Yes, yes
Arwynne O'NeillHOST
... which is also fantastic.
Arwynne O'NeillHOST
Yeah.
Alison PriceHOST
Yes.
Alison PriceHOST
So yeah, so yeah, this is the thing that, the, you think, "Well, who names these things?" Well, we, we know it's good old Mike Brown as-
Arwynne O'NeillHOST
Yeah
Mark GagnonHOST
And what's crazy is that astronomers are really hunting for a hidden planet out in space.
Mark GagnonHOST
So in 2016, two astronomers from Caltech, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, they announced that something strange might actually be hiding on the edge of our solar system that we haven't really discovered yet.
Mark GagnonHOST
They had been studying a handful of distant objects past Neptune, and they noticed something really weird.
Mark GagnonHOST
Their orbits seemed to be clustering together.