2022 VVCAL
Published on April 29, 2022

2022 VVCAL: Planet Nine Motif

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Hello, and a huge welcome to Week 9 of the 2022 Vibrant Vintage Crochet-A-Long (VVCAL)! I can’t believe we are almost halfway! Remember on Week 11, the full pattern PDF will be released – on May, Friday the 13th!

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If you have not yet seen the Week 9 Instruction post, please head there first and see the instructions for the version that you are working. Below, you will find the Planet Nine Motif pattern, in US, and UK Terms, Chart, Video, and Step by step photos.

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Planet Nine Motif

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The Cosmos: Planet Nine

Planet Nine is a hypothetical planet that could be at the edge of our Solar System. (Don’t worry Pluto, you’re forever planet nine in my eyes.) Here are some interesting Planet Nine facts!

  • In January 2015, Caltech astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown announced new research that provides evidence of a giant planet tracing an unusual, elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The prediction is based on detailed mathematical modeling and computer simulations, not direct observation. The gravity of this large object could explain the unique orbits of at least five smaller objects discovered in the distant Kuiper Belt.
  • The Caltech scientists believe Planet Nine may have has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and be similar in size to Uranus or Neptune. The predicted orbit is about 20 times farther from our Sun on average than Neptune (which orbits the Sun at an average distance of 2.8 billion miles). It would take this new planet between 10,000 and 20,000 years to make just one full orbit around the Sun (where Neptune completes an orbit roughly every 165 years). [More]
  • Astronomers first began searching for Planet Nine in 2016 (or 10 years after Pluto was demoted from its position as our solar system‘s ninth planet to become a mere dwarf planet). Astronomers noticed that six rocky objects beyond the orbit of Neptune clustered in a strange way, with the most-distant points in their orbits located much farther from the sun than the nearest points of their orbits. The team calculated that the gravitational pull of an unseen planet measuring five to 10 times the size of Earth could explain the eccentricity in those rocks’ orbits. [More]
  • A paper published in 2021 showed that astronomers scanned 87% of the sky visible from the southern hemisphere over six years using the 6-meter Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile to search for Planet 9. They then processed the images to search for faint sources but the quest came up empty. Although the results so far have been fruitless, the team acknowledged in the statement that more advanced surveys may yield more information. It’s the latest in a string of fruitless searches in the past decade, after a team of astronomers Chadwick A. Trujillo (then of Gemini Observatory) and Scott S. Sheppard (of the Carnegie Institution for Science) argued in Nature in 2014 that such a large world might explain a strange large gravity source in deep solar space. [More]
  • Attempts to detect planets beyond Neptune by indirect means instead of direct observation date back to before the discovery of Pluto. Among the first was George Forbes who postulated the existence of two trans-Neptunian planets in 1880. One would have an average distance from the Sun of 100 astronomical units (AU), 100 times that of the Earth. The second at 300 AU. His work is considered similar to more recent Planet Nine theories in that the planets would be responsible for a clustering of the orbits of several objects, in this case the clustering of periodic comets near 100 and 300 AU. [More]
Theoretical Planet Nine Orbit

Planet Nine Motif Pattern

Scroll down past written instruction for chart and video.

Reference

Stitch Guide (US Terms)

Note: Scroll down for UK Terms.

  • 2trcl 2 treble cluster: * yoh 2 times, insert hook in st, yoh pull through, (yoh, pull through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 1 time, yoh and pull through all 3 lps
  • 3dccl 3dc cluster: (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through 4 lps
  • beg beginning
  • beg 3dccl (beg dc, 2dccl) in same st/sp – counts as 1 3dccl
  • beg pc beginning popcorn: (beg dc, 3dc) in st/sp, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through beg dc, grab lp, pull lp to front of work to close
  • beg dc (1sc, ch1) – counts as 1 dc
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double crochet
  • lp loop
  • MR make ring: slip knot, ch3, ss in third ch from hook
  • pc popcorn: 4dc in st/sp indicated, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through first dc, grab lp, pull to front of work to close
  • sc single crochet
  • sp space (ch-sp = chain space)
  • ss slip stitch
  • st stitch
  • tr treble crochet
  • yoh yarn over hook

Written Instructions & Step-by-step Photos (US Terms)

Rnd 1 MR, beg 3dccl, [ch2, 3dccl] 5 times, ch2, ss in beg 3dccl. [6 3dccl, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 [5sc in next ch-sp, ch1] 6 times, ss in first sc. [30 sc, 6 sp]

Rnd 3 Ss in next st, [(1sc, ch3, 1sc) in next st, ch2, 1sc in ch-sp, ch2, sk2] 6 times, ss in first sc. [18 sc, 18 sp]

Rnd 4 Ss in 1 ch, beg dc in ch-3 sp, [ch1, 1dc in same ch-sp, 2dc in next ch-sp, ch2, 2dc in next ch-sp, 1dc in ch-3 sp] 6 times omitting final dc, ss in beg dc. [36 dc, 12 sp]

Rnd 5 Beg pc in ch-sp, [(ch2, 2trcl) 4 times in ch-2 sp, ch2, pc in ch-1 sp] 6 times omitting final pc, ss in beg pc. [6 pc, 24 2trcl, 30 sp]

Rnd 6 * [1sc in next ch-sp, ch1] 2 times, (1sc, ch2, 1sc) in next ch-sp, ch1, [1sc in next ch-sp, ch1] 2 times, rep from * 5 times, ss in first sc. [36 sc, 36 sp]

Rnd 7 [2sc in next 2 ch-sps, 3sc in next ch-sp] 12 times, ss in first sc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 sc]

Stitch Guide (UK Terms)

  • 2dtrcl 2 double treble cluster: * yoh 2 times, insert hook in st, yoh pull through, (yoh, pull through 2 lps on hook) 2 times, rep from * 1 time, yoh and pull through all 3 lps
  • 3trcl 3tr cluster: (yoh, insert hook in st/sp, yoh, pull up lp, yoh, draw yarn through 2 lps) 3 times, yoh, draw yarn through 4 lps
  • beg beginning
  • beg 3trcl (beg tr, 2trcl) in same st/sp – counts as 1 3trcl
  • beg pc beginning popcorn: (beg tr, 3tr) in st/sp, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through beg dc, grab lp, pull lp to front of work to close
  • beg tr (1dc, ch1) – counts as 1 tr
  • chN chain N number of times
  • dc double crochet
  • dtr double treble crochet
  • lp loop
  • MR make ring: slip knot, ch3, ss in third ch from hook
  • pc popcorn: 4tr in st/sp indicated, remove lp from hook, insert hook front to back through first tr, grab lp, pull to front of work to close
  • sp space (ch-sp = chain space)
  • ss slip stitch
  • st stitch
  • tr treble crochet
  • yoh yarn over hook

Written Instructions & Step-by-step Photos (UK Terms)

Rnd 1 MR, beg 3trcl, [ch2, 3trcl] 5 times, ch2, ss in beg 3trcl. [6 3trcl, 6 sp]

Rnd 2 [5dc in next ch-sp, ch1] 6 times, ss in first dc. [30 dc, 6 sp]

Rnd 3 Ss in next st, [(1dc, ch3, 1dc) in next st, ch2, 1dc in ch-sp, ch2, sk2] 6 times, ss in first dc. [18 dc, 18 sp]

Rnd 4 Ss in 1 ch, beg tr in ch-3 sp, [ch1, 1tr in same ch-sp, 2tr in next ch-sp, ch2, 2tr in next ch-sp, 1tr in ch-3 sp] 6 times omitting final tr, ss in beg tr. [36 tr, 12 sp]

Rnd 5 Beg pc in ch-sp, [(ch2, 2dtrcl) 4 times in ch-2 sp, ch2, pc in ch-1 sp] 6 times omitting final pc, ss in beg pc. [6 pc, 24 2dtrcl, 30 sp]

Rnd 6 * [1dc in next ch-sp, ch1] 2 times, (1dc, ch2, 1dc) in next ch-sp, ch1, [1dc in next ch-sp, ch1] 2 times, rep from * 5 times, ss in first dc. [36 dc, 36 sp]

Rnd 7 [2dc in next 2 ch-sps, 3dc in next ch-sp] 12 times, ss in first dc, cut yarn and weave ends. [84 dc]

Chart

Note: Chart is meant as a visual guide to the written instruction and might not be able to stand alone due to special stitches.

Video

Note: Video is spoken in US Terms. Watch on mute to avoid confusion for UK Terms,

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