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Dr. Katherine Volk

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2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

Maybe occultations.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

I did see a poster once at a meeting where people were trying to calculate could you actually, for something that distant, measure the occultation.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

And they thought it was maybe possible.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

So maybe.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

But the density, when you spread them out in a sphere like that, is really low.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

So I think the odds of catching an event at the right time are really low.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

And they'd be very fast.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

You have to do high cadence observations.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

I'm not going to hold my breath on that.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
Are There Unseen Planets Lurking in the Kuiper Belt? by Kathryn Volk - November 1, 2017

But it is technically possible, but not direct observations.

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