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Astronomers are Predicting at Least Two More Large Planets in the Solar System
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| on January 15, 2015
| Nancy Atkinson
Posted on 01/15/2015 3:45:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: muir_redwoods
wow. That would be some distance.
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:00:59 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:01:53 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Dr. Thorne
Uh oh. Nibiru.Where's Quix? This is right up his alley.
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:02:34 PM PST
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Back in my day, one sailed West to reach the Orient with no land in between. Thankfully, someone tried it.
To: GeronL
The Oort cloud is still theorhetical but likely and possibly believed to extend nearly half way to Alpha Centauri.
The definitions of what is and isn't in our solar system is kind of open to interpretation. In my interpretation, anything under the gravitational influence of our sun is within the solar system.
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01/15/2015 4:04:18 PM PST
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cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: Don W
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:07:23 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: cripplecreek
All this talk of more planets is very “perturbing” to me.
To: BenLurkin
Unless it’s going to be the Tropical Planet of Naked Women I’m not much interested.
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01/15/2015 4:10:24 PM PST
by
PLMerite
(Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
To: cripplecreek
Sedna looks just about far enough away to send the Islamics there...
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:11:26 PM PST
by
faithhopecharity
((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
To: cripplecreek
Perhaps more likely is that our Sun is part of a binary star system.
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:13:36 PM PST
by
Zuse
(I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
To: Fungi
What is the Dolmadakia? About ten bucks at Trader Joe's.
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:13:46 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
To: PLMerite
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:14:56 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: BenLurkin
They looked at how the highly eccentric comet 96P/Machholz1 is influenced by Jupiter (it will come near the orbit of Mercury in 2017, but it travels as much as 6 AU at aphelion) and it may provide the key to explain the puzzling clustering of orbits around argument of perihelion close to 0° recently found for the population of ETNOs,
Whoa, what a coincidence! Me and my homies was discussing that very subject during half time of the Packers game Sunday.......
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:15:40 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm a man of no-color and proud of it.)
To: Zuse
Its possible since most stars are binary. There could be a red or brown dwarf out there that we haven’t spotted yet.
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01/15/2015 4:16:17 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
To: BenLurkin
To: centurion316; All; PLMerite
Danggit! If they find more planets, I'll have to have my tatt updated! (No 'Uranus' jokes, PLEASE!)
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01/15/2015 4:17:31 PM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: JennysCool
Don’t like the canned stuff. Sadaf label is about three bucks at ethnic stores; fair but homemade is infinetely better.
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:17:33 PM PST
by
Fungi
To: Diana in Wisconsin
A lot of those look like....growths......
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:18:41 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: GeronL
If they orbit within the Oort cloud, they are between 5,000 and 100,000 times farther away from the sun than we are. That makes the orbital period, very roughly, something like 5,000 to 100,000 years.
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posted on
01/15/2015 4:20:57 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Another reminder of why it’s so important to demand that anyone that you are considering interacting with for anything beyond a cup of coffee must strip down to the buff so that you can examine whatever tattoos they may have emblazoned on their body.
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