WNCNews – February 14, 2011 – A group of astronomers believed that they have discovered a new planet in the solar system. They suspected that the new planet is at a great distance from the Sun and has a size four times larger than the Jupiter.

The existence of this new planet is still to be seen again. However, some circles believed that the evidence has been collected and obtained through observation results from NASA telescope, WISE. Data on finding a new planet will be published this year.

Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana Lafayette, U.S., believed that the data could prove the existence of the new planet in two years. “If it was true, I and my colleague, John Matese, will be turned upside down. And, it is not easy at our age,” he said.

The planet is named Tyche for a while. The name is the name of a Greek goddess who determines the fate of a city. Tyche is suspected as giant gas planet, like Jupiter.

Tyche is expected to be in the outer Oort cloud, an “remote” area in the solar system. The distance of this new planet to the Sun reachs 15.000 times the Earth-Sun distance, or 375 times the distance of the Sun-Pluto.

Whitmire believed that the main constituents of Tyche are the Hydrogen and Helium. He also revealed that the planet’s atmosphere is similar to Jupiter’s atmosphere. “You also can hope this planet has some satellites,” he said(...)