It’s coming up on a decade since the Planet Nine announcement, and the Batygin-Brown article in the Astronomical Journal, has accumulated a remarkable 666,130 (and counting) downloads. To catch myself up, I’m working an overview for Oklo of where the situation stands.

To help encapsulate the process, I’ve made a playlist that strives to obliquely capture the narrative arc of exhilaration, hope, fear, resignation, acceptance, and ultimately optimism that it’s out there… the traces of its presence should already reside on the drives in the RAID arrays, suspended in the exabyte seas…