Was Planet 9 captured in the Sun's natal star-forming region?
  The presence of an unseen `Planet 9' on the outskirts of the Solar system has
been invoked to explain the unexpected clustering of the orbits of several
Edgeworth--Kuiper Belt Objects. We use $N$-body simulations to investigate the
probability that Planet 9 was a free-floating planet (FFLOP) that was captured
by the Sun in its birth star-formation environment. We find that only 1 - 6 per
cent of FFLOPs are ensnared by stars, even with the most optimal initial
conditions for capture in star-forming regions (one FFLOP per star, and highly
correlated stellar velocities to facilitate capture). Depending on the initial
conditions of the star-forming regions, only 5 - 10 of 10000 planets are
captured onto orbits that lie within the constraints for Planet 9. When we
apply an additional environmental constraint for Solar system formation -
namely the injection of short-lived radioisotopes into the Sun's protoplanetary
disc from supernovae - we find that the probability for the capture of Planet 9
to be almost zero.
