Characteristics
Orbit
Planet Nine is hypothesized to follow a highly elliptical path around the Sun, with an orbital period of 10,000–20,000 years. The planet would have a semi-major axis of roughly 700 astronomical units (AU), or about 20 times the distance of Neptune from the Sun, though it might come as close as 200 AU (30 billion km), and its inclination estimated as 30 (± 20) degrees.[1][2][6][A] The high eccentricity of Planet Nine's orbit could take it as far away as 1200 AU at its aphelion.[7] [8]Size
Planet Nine is estimated to be similar in size and composition to the
blue ice giants Uranus and Neptune, pictured here to scale with the gas
giants and terrestrial planets.[9]
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