"How much longer?"

"If you count them as they reply immediately after receiving the message, there are still 2 minutes and 31 seconds. ”

After waiting for almost an hour, the results are finally coming. Liu Liangmu nodded and asked again, "Is there a result from the flintstone space?"

"No, they, like us, lack more necessary information and ...... Wait, huh?" the commander stared at the screen before he could finish speaking.

Liu Liangmu hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

"They're starting to adjust their tracks...... No, it should have started adjusting the track before 39 minutes!"

Liu Liangmu's heart was relieved, which at least showed that the flint space city was safe and sound, and it had the ability to maneuver.

In this way, before they received the information from the Xinghai side, they began to correct the deviated course.

It's good that nothing goes wrong!

"But...... The adjustment of the route is a little strange!" The commander looked at the new route that gradually appeared on the screen, his face was grim, "Why is it getting more and more biased?"

Ryu Ryogi's heart lifted again and he looked at the screen carefully.

Sure enough, although the point of light representing the flint space city began to move sideways, it was moving in a direction that deviated more from the course.

That's not a good sign!

"How much longer?"

"83 seconds!"

Seeing that the route of the flintstone space city was getting more and more deviated, the control hall gradually became more depressed and quiet.

Everyone was looking forward to the reply.

HSDA has built antennas in the world's deep space exploration network, maintaining stable power, waiting for battery waves from Flint Space City to reach Earth.

It also includes communication antennas built on the Tiangong space station and the Moon Palace base.

In just over an hour, the incident of flintstone space city's flight deviation has been submitted to the HSDA Board of Governors, which is a top priority.

Otherwise, Liu Liangmu would not have come here in a hurry.

What happened over there in Flint Space City?

The countdown on the screen jumped to 0, and the communication channel was still silent.

The commander said: "They changed the route further more than a minute in advance, and we calculated the distance and signal return time according to the original data, so there will be a little delay." ”

Liu Liangmu nodded and didn't speak, now he can only wait!

Seeing that the route of Flint Space City on the screen had deviated a lot, everyone in the hall knew what it meant.

If it is a space activity within the Earth-Moon system, this can already be judged as a failure of the mission.

What's more, after so long of acceleration in Flint Space City, the speed at which it is now flying is not comparable to that of any spacecraft in the Earth-Moon system.

How many thousands of kilometers is that deviation on the screen, the actual scale placed near Jupiter?

In the middle, you can put down a globe very loosely.

Just then, a voice came from the control hall.

"Xinghai, this is Flintstone Space City. ”

In the hall, Liu Liangmu's unconsciously clenched fists were loosened, and the others even let out a burst of cheers.

The voice is not over: "We are very safe, thanks for the concern." In addition, we discovered an undiscovered star near the route. We've just modified the course to take advantage of its gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate again. This new star was named Good Hope by its discoverer, and we will send back its basic data later. In addition, the Flintstone Space City will also do some close-up observations as it passes by. ”

When the voice ended, the commander was already very excited: "Is the data being received?"

"Receiving!"

Liu Liangmu asked curiously, "New stars?"

"This is a new discovery!" said the commander, "Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system, and its gravitational pull is amazing. Seventy-nine moons of Jupiter have been discovered, but this is not necessarily the final word. Now, a new satellite has been discovered over there in Flint Space City!"

"And it's definitely more cost-effective to allow them to use extra fuel to change course and use the gravitational slingshot effect to accelerate. So this new satellite will not be small! Good Hope, this is an allusion to the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope in the Age of Discovery. The discovery of a new star not far from the doorstep of mankind's first deep-space voyage is a good sign!"

"It's just a little strange, does Jupiter have any big moons that haven't been discovered? The ones that have been discovered recently are only small ones with a diameter of one or two kilometers......."

He said so much in one breath, and his excitement also infected Liu Liangmu.

Liu Liangmu smiled: "The Heavenly Palace and the Moon Palace should have also received good news, right? ”

"That's for sure!" the commander couldn't wait to look at the data he had just received, and then froze, "What is this? Its orbit ......"

Liu Liangmu didn't look at the door for a while, and asked him, "What's wrong?"

"Not the moons of Jupiter? this mass, this orbit...... It's not scientific...... it!"

In a hurry, the commander, who had forgotten to pay attention to the civilized language, didn't bother to explain to Liu Liangmu properly, and immediately ordered: "Quick, let the Sky Survey Module, FAST and other telescopes move, now there is accurate position data!"

Almost moments later, telescopes on the surface and in space began to adjust their angles and attitudes, aiming at some void outside Jupiter.

The commander arranged a pass, and then tried to calm his mind and kept taking deep breaths.

Liu Liangmu felt that his mood fluctuated too much today, and hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?"

The commander pondered for a while, organized the language, and then said to Liu Liangmu: "More than ten years ago, because of the discovery of Sedna and Eris, Pluto was considered a dwarf planet, and the nine planets of the solar system became eight. But later, several asteroids of the same size were discovered outside the Kuiper Belt. Moreover, their orbits are all peculiar, and they seem to be influenced by some very peculiar large gravitational source that converges at the perihelion of their orbits. ”

As a result, there are some who believe that there is one more undiscovered planet in the solar system, or even at least two. This possible planet is temporarily called planetX, but, presumably, its orbit is beyond Neptune!"

The commander pointed to the data from the flint space city on the screen in front of him and said, "But Academician Gu said that the strange changes in the orbits of those asteroids are probably due to this newly discovered good hope star. And, it's much more than that!"

"This orbital data ...... It's amazing! Its perihelion is actually inserted between Jupiter and Saturn! Moreover, its orbit is very large at an angle to the ecliptic plane of the Sun, which looks ......," the commander said strangely, "like a wandering star that has just been captured by the Sun, and its mass is more than three times that of the Earth!"

"What will be the impact?" Liu Liangmu reluctantly digested the information and asked a crucial question.

"Impact?" the commander paused, as if to think and calm down, and finally said, "More data is yet to be seen." But if the calculations on the side of the flint space city are not wrong, this big guy has just been affected by the gravitational pull of the sun in the past tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years. ”

"And if it is really captured by the sun, it will have a huge disturbance to the gravitational environment of the entire solar system. The orbital anomalies of the Kuiper Belt are just the beginning, and the impact it will have is too great. It's something that's going to turn the solar system upside down! Now, it's so close to Jupiter, if it gets affected by Jupiter and ends up hitting Jupiter or Jupiter's moons, it's a devastating event!"

"It's not a meteorite or a comet, it's more than three times the mass of the Earth! Even if it doesn't hit Jupiter or Jupiter's moons, eventually the stars will change their orbits because of their gravitational pull. Do you know what would happen if the Earth was a little closer or a little farther away from the Sun?"

Liu Liangmu was shocked, do you still need to ask?

He couldn't help but blurt out, "What kind of hope is this?"

The commander smiled bitterly: "I don't know what Academician Gu thinks...... Of course, if that day exists, I don't know how many thousands of years from now......"