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Giant planet ejected from the solar system
Southwest Research Institute ^
| November 10, 2011
Posted on 11/11/2011 5:16:23 AM PST by decimon
Boulder, Colo. — Nov. 10, 2011 — Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to an article recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
"We have all sorts of clues about the early evolution of the solar system," says author Dr. David Nesvorny of the Southwest Research Institute. "They come from the analysis of the trans-Neptunian population of small bodies known as the Kuiper Belt, and from the lunar cratering record."
These clues suggest that the orbits of giant planets were affected by a dynamical instability when the solar system was only about 600 million years old. As a result, the giant planets and smaller bodies scattered away from each other.
Some small bodies moved into the Kuiper Belt and others traveled inward, producing impacts on the terrestrial planets and the Moon. The giant planets moved as well. Jupiter, for example, scattered most small bodies outward and moved inward.
(Excerpt) Read more at swri.org ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; History
KEYWORDS: astronomy; caltech; catastrophism; deusexmachina; immanuelvelikovsky; jupiter; kbo; konstantinbatygin; mikebrown; neptune; ninthplanet; planetx; pluto; rogueplanet; rogueplanets; saturn; tno; uranus; velikovsky; worldsincollision; xplanets
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:16:24 AM PST
by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:16:55 AM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
Giant planet ejected from the solar systemDid it foul Jupiter or something?
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:17:23 AM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(Obama: The stupid person`s idea of a smart person.)
To: decimon
Giant planet ejected from the solar system GTFO!
;)
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:17:53 AM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: decimon
Jupiter, you’re next, buddy.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:20:28 AM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: decimon
One year from today...
"Oops. We were wrong. No giant planet. Sorry."
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:21:13 AM PST
by
Dr. Thorne
(Fall on your knees before Christ, your only salvation!)
To: decimon
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:22:08 AM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: decimon
Martians, woman and minorities impacted most!
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:23:31 AM PST
by
IrishPennant
(We don't want to work so we go to work to make enough money not to work...Huh?)
To: decimon
Couldn’t have ejected Uranus. Dang.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:23:46 AM PST
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
To: decimon
hmmm....obviously, there was some horseplay involved. tsk, tsk.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:24:04 AM PST
by
ZinGirl
To: decimon
That’s cool and all but does it mean Hillary is still the smartest woman in the Milky Way?
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:24:21 AM PST
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:25:13 AM PST
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: decimon
The moon and all the planets look battle-scarred to me.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:26:59 AM PST
by
RoadTest
(For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
To: Vaquero
It was the body english at the end that dunked it.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:33:28 AM PST
by
decimon
To: decimon
obama has declared that all planet ejections are hereby on hold pending further review by federal agencies
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:35:58 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall)
To: decimon
“... the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth ...”
That would be the planet Obama.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:39:35 AM PST
by
Mister Da
(The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
To: decimon
To: Dr. Thorne
I like your comment.... Maybe by then there will also be a new theory on global warming, somking and lung cancer, and whether red meat is good for you.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:40:11 AM PST
by
ixtl
( You live and learn. Or you don't live long.)
To: decimon
Another Orpheus? But wait........ they just made that one up. This must be different.
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:40:15 AM PST
by
faucetman
(Just the facts ma'am, just the facts)
To: decimon
Bush’s fault!
In view of the missing giant we should readmit Pluto!
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posted on
11/11/2011 5:43:11 AM PST
by
outofsalt
("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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