Mike Brown: Obvious attempt at snark is obvious.<p>No it wouldn&#x27;t suggest there are 200,000 earth sized planets in the outer solar system. Don&#x27;t be absurd. The situation does seem reminiscent of how Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto (accidentally discovered a massive (compared to other nearby objects) outer solar system object in the Lowell Observatory telescope&#x27;s tiny tiny field of view, no computer help either), but while it is possible that thousands of Kuiper Belt objects on the scale of Pluto exist (we&#x27;ve only discovered three or four so far because they would be so difficult to detect), hundreds of thousands of earth sized planets would have already collapsed gravitationally. Don&#x27;t be absurd.