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    I did not discover Planet 9

    Jun 03, 2020 2 minutes
    by Joe Ulowetz

    I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR from the start: I didn’t discover Planet 9, that hypothetical, super-Earth-size world posited to lie in the outer realms of our Solar System. In fact, I didn’t discover anything. But for one day I couldn’t help but wonder: Could it be?

    I live in suburbia, where third-magnitude

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