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Meet the Man Trying to Find the Theorized Ninth Planet in Our Solar System

Meisner, a NASA Hubble Fellow, is scouring through exabytes of data collected daily to search for undiscovered planets and celestial bodies in our solar system.
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In anticipation of the 50th anniversary of NASA astronauts landing on the moon, Newsweek is spotlighting pioneers in science and technology, highlighting their very own moonshots and how they hope to change the world.

Aaron Meisner, the 31-year-old NASA Hubble Fellow and co-founder of Backyard Worlds Citizen Science project, is changing the way humans look at the stars. Aaron has been using big data mining techniques and a team of amateur volunteers across the world to search for undiscovered planets and other celestial bodies, which may include our

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