Planet Nine could be the new home of the next generation.

Michael Brown, the man who demoted Pluto in 2006, discovered Planet Nine, together with Konstantin Batygin.

The atmosphere of Planet Nine is reportedly shallow and dense, much like Earth, which means it could provide a hefty lift for a rocket ship.

Planet Nine, which is 20 times Neptune's distance to the Sun, was also seen stirring rock and ice pieces around its orbit, which according to Batygin and Brown, can only be achieved by a planet.

Planet discoveries are common. Astronomers usually find planets 10 times larger than Earth when they search the galaxy's stars, but Planet Nine is different. It's bigger than anything else ever found.

The Atlantic asked 92-year-old 20th century physics genius Freeman Dyson about Planet Nine and the possibility of it being our next home planet.

Dyson, who is working at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, wrote previously that some objects in the solar system could become stepping stones of further voyages into the unknown outer space, places where spaceships could refuel and resupply.

Asked whether Planet Nine could become an ideal way station, Dyson exclaimed that "The galaxy is like the Pacific Ocean, scattered with small islands that are abundant and easy to visit," but no, Planet Nine couldn't possibly be a stepping stone."

He added that "Planets are rare, hard to land on, and harder to take off from. Comets are far more abundant and more friendly to visitors."

The Atlantic probed Dyson further and asked what we could benefit from having a gravity-assisting planet since we have used Jupiter's gravity to slingshoot space probes into outer space.

"The discovery of a new planet in our system would be a hugely exciting event in many ways," he said.

The website asked orbital mechanics expert Steinn Sigurdsson from Penn State University the same question.

He said that in principle, if we are to use gravity assist from either Jupiter or Planet Nine, we can use them as slingshots for our ships, help us escape the sun's gravity and help us explore the solar system far away from our home planet.

"To get a good gravity assist, you need to be able to dive deep into the gravity well of the planet to pick up speed, and then fire your rocket at the closest approach," Sigurdsson said. "So you want a massive planet, and you want to go as close to the surface as possible."

However, he added that Planet Nine could give a starship a nice boost if its atmosphere is dense and shallow like Earth's, but if it has Neptune's watery and thick atmosphere, it might not be worth trying as a way station.

While not exactly a new star ship booster, the possibilities are endless. If Planet Nine happens to have the same atmosphere as Earth, it could even be our next home planet. There could be other planets beyond it that are near the sun, too. Who knows what awaits us beyond Planet Nine?

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