Have astronomers discovered evidence of a new, huge "dark planet" at the farthest reaches of our solar system?

http://www.space.com/31670-planet-nine-solar-system-discovery.html

Or Is it just the Charon Relay?

If it is an actual planet, don't name it Nero .

If you named it Nero, don't go there.

If you went there don't open anything called " the first seal of repulsion ".

If you opened it...

Dark Symetry for all!

At least it's not the eye of terror...

No. It's the Great Devourer.

Pretty exciting times we live in. I hope they can find it.

Wasn't a wandering brown dwarf a long held theory for a planet at the edge of our system?

Wasn't a wandering brown dwarf

Wow that's very insensitive of you. I'm pretty sure they prefer to be called little people, and brown is so far out...

Hopefully me explaining that the above was a joke isn't really required but better safe than sorry...

Come now Vanor, it's me.

I'm more offended that you didn't imply that I meant Red Dwarf...

Guys, it's smaller than Neptune.

It's pretty well confirmed by the guy who discovered it. It will be interesting to see its composition. Anyone want to bet on rocky?

The suggestion so far is a gas giant iirc

It's pretty well confirmed by the guy who discovered it. It will be interesting to see its composition. Anyone want to bet on rocky?

Balboa? Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I read in the papers that they did the math on a possible orbit and nothing addedd up, untill they tried running it backwards and then things started matching up except some other objects would have been displaced aswell, so they tought it was another dead end, untill they found the displaced objects. So it looks very likley they will soon find the actual planet itself.

So are there any natural disasters that are on a 15,000 year cycle?

B/c you know, aliens.

Any ideas as to what they are gonna name it?

Might I suggest we stick with the current naming of celestial bodies after Roman gods :

I was gonna go for a god of invisbility, but that's Pluto, or actualy his helmet, so instead my choices are:

• Nox : Goddess of night. (Nyx in greek mythology)
• Erebus : God of darkness (of the underworld and Nyx's brother)
• Urania ; godes/muse of astronemy

So what do you guys think? Or how would you name our (soon to be) newfound planet?

Nyx and Erebus both sound fine to me; night/darkness seems very appropriate given how distant it would be

As a former elementary teacher, please don't name anything else using urani -.

Nyx and Erebus both sound fine to me; night/darkness seems very appropriate given how distant it would be

I think there's a rule that they can't re-use names (and unfortunately a vast number of the Greek and Roman names have already been used on asteroids, Kuiper belt objects, and moons.)

There's certain rules for naming dwarf planets beyond Neptune, in particular ones in orbital resonance with it - but, if this thing turns out to be real, it won't exactly be a dwarf planet - so different rules may come into play.