• Question: Is it possible for the new planet that we discovered, outside of Pluto's orbit, to be part of a space ripple sending a new galaxy to collide with ours?

    Asked by Yasmin to Tom on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Thomas Barrett

      Thomas Barrett answered on 10 Mar 2015:


      Well we know the Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with out Milky Way. I assume the planet you are on about is the dwarf planet Eris which was discovered in 2005? I don’t think that it is due to any sort of gravitational ripple. We are trying to look for gravitational waves and something as big as your talking about would have been spotted by now.

      Points for knowing there is another dwarf planet outside of Pluto’s Orbit 🙂

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