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A team of sketchy scientists have teamed up to accuse planet Jupiter of Murder. They're on a witchunt with handfulls of flimsy WTF evidence that wouldn't hold up in Judge Judy's court. So Why is every media outlet running with this story? Could the Black Cube of Saturn be setting up the Monarch of Planets for a big Frame? Jupiter is not a bully or a killer! Who can say what of the Early Solar System Formation Blues? Strange days indeed. God Bless everyone, T @newTHOR on twitter https://www.facebook.com/thornewsgo articles http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jupiter-lost-planet-solar-system_563cdf69e4b0b24aee4a0d6c Jupiter May Be To Blame For The Fate Of Our Solar System's Missing Planet Scientists have long suspected that our solar system was once home to a mysterious planet -- similar to the four giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune -- but something happened about four billion years ago that caused the planet to disappear. Now, a team of astrophysicists in Toronto have made significant steps towards solving the mystery. According to new research, published in the latest issue of The Astronomical Journal, a collision with Jupiter resulted in the ancient planet being ejected from our solar system. "This is consistent with our expectation that if you want to eject a planet from the solar system, then you likely need a massive planet," Ryan Cloutier, a Ph.D candidate in the University of Toronto's department of astronomy and astrophysics and lead author of the new research, told The Huffington Post in an email. "Although our results may not have been that surprising, I was very excited." The researchers created computer simulations of our solar system's four giant planets and their moons, including Jupiter's moon Callisto and Saturn's moon Iapetus. In a process of elimination, the researchers then measured whether each moon in the solar system would have still followed its current orbit if its host planet was responsible for ejecting the ancient lost planet some four billion years ago. The researchers found that Jupiter, the largest world in our solar system, was the only one capable of ejecting the lost planet while retaining the current orbits of its moons. For instance, in order for Saturn to have ejected the long-lost planet, the collision of the two planets would have been so violent that Iapetus's orbit around Saturn would have been thrown off course. "Conversely," Cloutier said, "if you run the same experiment with Jupiter you find that Jupiter is capable of ejecting the fifth giant planet whilst retaining an orbit of its moon Callisto." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/06/more-evidence-that-jupiter-kicked-ancient-planets-out-of-the-solar-system/ According to a recent study in The Astrophysical Journal, Jupiter probably kicked a ninth planet out of our solar system back in the day. The study attempts to answer a question raised in 2011, when scientists realized that our solar system just isn't quite right. Based on what we see in other solar systems, it would be much more normal for us to have at least one more planet -- a fifth gas giant, like Saturn or Jupiter. Otherwise, the way our solar system is laid out just doesn't make much sense. The simplest explanation is that the ninth planet had a close encounter with one of the other gas giants, and that it was pulled from the sun's gravitational pull as a result. But was it Saturn or Jupiter that did the deed? In the new study, researchers took a look at the orbits of the two planet's moons, looking for evidence that they could exist in their current trajectory after such a violent encounter. "Our evidence points to Jupiter," lead author Ryan Cloutier, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto, said in a statement.