![]() ![]() We can wait for Voyager to reach Tyche, but by the time he gets there, he will no longer be able to power his instruments as they will be in a dormant mode. Scientists would like to mount a space probe to Tyche, but the mission would take around 43 years. Some even guess that Tyche has "antlers" or "horns". Another guess is that Tyche glows in the visible spectrum. The common speculation is that Tyche is more massive than Jupiter, probably 1-2 Jupiter masses or even 4 Jupiter masses, and has an atmosphere much like Jupiter. NOTE: Tyche may or may not be a major planet This picture shows how Tyche dislodges comets into the Inner Solar System. ![]() It's gargantuan distance from the Sun (the only main planet outside the Sun's termination shock) and its orbital inclination of 44 degrees means it stays out of the Zodiacal band for its entire 1.8 million year orbit. It orbits in the Oort Cloud but may sweep into the Sun's bow shock for a very tiny portion of its eccentric orbit. Tyche has an orbit that is at average 500 times further out than Neptune. More details of its gravitational pull are unknown as of now. Whitemire states that Tyche dislodges long-period comets from the Oort Cloud and Tyche may also the tilted orbits of 2006 SQ372 and Sedna, although this is still inconclusive. ![]() Whitmire and his colleague Patrick Whitman believe Tyche has been captured by WISE (right). Tyche should indentified soon after the post-cryo data gets released later this year. If Tyche exists, it will be discovered in either late 2013 or early 2014 and the IAU will have to choose a now name for this Planet X. All the data will be completely analyzed on March 2012. 2 months later, more data was released and all the data is still being analyzed. Then, in February 2011, the internet was abuzz about new possilbe data found of Tyche. When Pluto was reclassified as a Dwarf Planet in 2006, Whitemire changed it to a 9th planet. ?Directly sampling material from within the crater wouldhelp us learn more about not just when Tycho formed, but the ages of terrainson other planets throughout the solar system,? the scientists said.In 1999, Daniel Whitemire found "evidence" of a 10th planet lurking out in the outer Oort Cloud by seeing comets getting dislodged from the Oort Cloud. These may finally be available soon, sincethe site has been chosen as a possible landing spot for future manned missionsto the moon in the 2020s under NASA?sConstellation program. To find the truth about Tycho?s age, scientists will needrocks collected inside the crater. ?This may still seem old, but compared to the 3.9billion-year age for many large lunar craters, Tycho is the new kid on theblock,? LRO researchers said in a statement. Radiometric age dating of these rocks indicatesthey formed about 108 million years ago, meaning the Tycho crater may haveformed then as well. One of their best guesses comes from rocks collected byastronauts at the Apollo 17 landing site that may have originated at Tycho andbeen displaced by the impact. Withoutdirectly sampling rocks from inside the crater, scientists can?t be sure howold it is. Space Planets Astronomy Stars Space Nasa National Aeronautics And. Tycho is about 53 miles (85 km) in diameter. an image of the planets orbit with all its satellites labeled in green and blue lines. ![]()
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