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Message 1604825 - Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 10:01:33 UTC

It seems that some astronomers have put the Planet X theory back on the board.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/astronomers-believe-they-may-be-about-to-discover-one-or-even-two-new-planets/story-fnjwlcze-1227132634086

Due to some recent observations they seem to think that there maybe 1 or 2 other planets out there in the darkness at the edge of our solar system (personally I still regard Pluto as a planet so in my books no.9 is already there).

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Message 1604839 - Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 10:30:37 UTC

Hmm, Nibiru... I thought that story was a myth. Never believed in it myself. Thx for the link Wiggo, will read it later on:)
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Message 1604855 - Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 10:59:24 UTC

I'm with you wiggo Pluto is a Planet and now we got 2 more yippee places to go friends to see ....one day in the future :)
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Message 1604900 - Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 14:43:45 UTC - in response to Message 1604839.  
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(personally I still regard Pluto as a planet so in my books no.9 is already there).


Actually, I think that they have confirmed some other snowball/Icey orbs that are actually bigger than Pluto some time ago.
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Message 1604911 - Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 15:46:34 UTC

The original planet "x" theory was that another large gas giant was lurking out there somewhere and now that voyager has passed through the area with nothing altering it's track that idea has been put to rest. More objects in the size range of Pluto (planet 9 in my book) will be interesting but difficult finds.
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Message 1604914 - Posted: 24 Nov 2014, 16:03:14 UTC - in response to Message 1604900.  

(personally I still regard Pluto as a planet so in my books no.9 is already there).


Actually, I think that they have confirmed some other snowball/Icey orbs that are actually bigger than Pluto some time ago.


Yup, I believe Ceres is one of them... Still, Pluto will always be a planet for me too:)
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Message 1605215 - Posted: 25 Nov 2014, 7:53:19 UTC - in response to Message 1604978.  
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Wasn't the asteroid belt supposed to be the remains of a blown up planet?



Yes, because of Jupiter's gravity, the debris has never been able to form a proper planet again.
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Message 1605288 - Posted: 25 Nov 2014, 12:19:01 UTC
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The "official" answer is that the bits never formed a planet in the first place because of Jupiter.

That's exactly what I said Chris.

[edit] I shouldn't have added the word again...
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Message 1605306 - Posted: 25 Nov 2014, 13:34:08 UTC - in response to Message 1604911.  

The original planet "x" theory was that another large gas giant was lurking out there somewhere and now that voyager has passed through the area with nothing altering it's track that idea has been put to rest. More objects in the size range of Pluto (planet 9 in my book) will be interesting but difficult finds.


There might be some planets beyond Neptune:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planets_beyond_Neptune#Discovery_of_further_trans-Neptunian_objects

NASA beyond Neptune:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Pluto

We might call him Tyche:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20110218.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyche_(hypothetical_planet)

Finding of the Brawn dwarf:
http://www.space.com/25659-coldest-brown-dwarf-near-sun-discovery.html
put up the news again about Nemesis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_(hypothetical_star)

So, we'll see... ;)


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Message 1606827 - Posted: 29 Nov 2014, 5:55:45 UTC

I read somewhere that the infrared telescope used to find brown dwarfs would have found the planets by now.
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Message 1606882 - Posted: 29 Nov 2014, 10:53:08 UTC
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In the end it becomes just armchair science.

Better care for your family and children instead, perhaps?

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Message 1606918 - Posted: 29 Nov 2014, 14:55:41 UTC - in response to Message 1604900.  
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Actually, I think that they have confirmed some other snowball/Icey orbs that are actually bigger than Pluto some time ago.

Eris. It's bigger than Pluto, has a moon, is 3x farther away.
Edit: Even though it's bigger than Pluto, it's still only about 1/5 the mass of Earth's moon. Pluto is very small.
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Message 1606976 - Posted: 29 Nov 2014, 20:00:12 UTC - in response to Message 1606918.  

Actually, I think that they have confirmed some other snowball/Icey orbs that are actually bigger than Pluto some time ago.

Eris. It's bigger than Pluto, has a moon, is 3x farther away.
Edit: Even though it's bigger than Pluto, it's still only about 1/5 the mass of Earth's moon. Pluto is very small.



Charon is very large in proportion to Pluto. She always has the same position in Pluto's sky! Fascinating...
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Message 1608025 - Posted: 2 Dec 2014, 6:00:07 UTC - in response to Message 1606888.  

I read somewhere that the infrared telescope used to find brown dwarfs would have found the planets by now.

Could you remember and find where you read that? Perhaps that telescope might have found something if it had been aimed in that direction with that task in mind, rather than the one it was actually programmed to do.

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This might be where I saw it.
http://www.space.com/25234-planet-x-search-solar-system.html

"A new analysis of data collected by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft revealed no sign of the mysterious Planet X hypothesized to exist in the outer solar system. But scientists are keeping up the search for a planet or dim star far from the sun."
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Message 1608039 - Posted: 2 Dec 2014, 7:00:07 UTC - in response to Message 1608025.  

I read somewhere that the infrared telescope used to find brown dwarfs would have found the planets by now.

Could you remember and find where you read that? Perhaps that telescope might have found something if it had been aimed in that direction with that task in mind, rather than the one it was actually programmed to do.

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This might be where I saw it.
http://www.space.com/25234-planet-x-search-solar-system.html

"A new analysis of data collected by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft revealed no sign of the mysterious Planet X hypothesized to exist in the outer solar system. But scientists are keeping up the search for a planet or dim star far from the sun."

U mean something like this?
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/wise/spitzer-coldest-brown-dwarf-20140425/
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But it's too far to part of our solar system...


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Message 1616013 - Posted: 18 Dec 2014, 23:37:42 UTC - in response to Message 1608071.  

plunking this story here :)

Will a comet shower end life on Earth? Rogue star could send icy rocks hurtling into the solar system ...in 240,000 years

Far beyond the orbit of Neptune, trillions of comets left over from the formation of the solar system lie in wait in a region known as the Oort cloud.

Here they are kept in relatively stable orbits around the sun, posing little threat to Earth save for the occasional icy rock that ventures inwards.

But in the blink of a cosmic eye that could all change, as stars have been found that could pass near our solar system in 240,000 years - and it they might shower us with thousands of deadly comets.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2879070/Will-comet-shower-end-life-Earth-Rogue-star-send-icy-rocks-hurtling-solar-240-000-years.html
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Message 1616098 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 6:51:15 UTC - in response to Message 1616013.  

Right now we have the technology to see it & have 2-3y of preparement...so that means:
1. randevue (tractoring it, maybe with sails)
2. nuke it (deflection)
3. sacrifice Moon for the impact (obliterate it in collision)

So not to worry to much...NEO-WISE is out there! ;)


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Message 1616169 - Posted: 19 Dec 2014, 9:12:08 UTC - in response to Message 1616168.  

3. sacrifice Moon for the impact (obliterate it in collision)


Do you want to have a rethink on that one???

Firstly, what would happen to earths oceans if there no tides any more? Secondly it also affects the seasons and the rate of the earths spin, Thirdly all the moons fragments could cause as much damage on earth as the comet.

Not to mention the wobble that the Earth would suffer without the moon being there to balance it. ;-)

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Message 1617313 - Posted: 22 Dec 2014, 10:16:54 UTC

Yes, yes...but if the choice is: Earth or the Moon...well, it seems an easy choise to me! Sacrifice the Bishop, to save the Queen!


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