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The Search for the Solar System's Lost Planet
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| 4/13/09
| Clara Moskowitz
Posted on 04/13/2009 12:21:37 PM PDT by Vaquero
Clara Moskowitz
The solar system might once have had another planet named Theia, which may have helped create our own planet's moon.
Now two spacecrafts are heading out to search for leftovers from this rumored sibling, which would have been destroyed when the solar system was still young.
"It's a hypothetical world. We've never actually seen it, but some researchers believe it existed 4.5 billion years ago and that it collided with Earth to form the moon," said Mike Kaiser, a NASA scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: badastronomy; catastrophism; godsgravesglyphs; lunarcapture; lunarorigin; mikekaiser; moon; nasa; stereo; telescope; theia; themoon; xplanets
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:21:38 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
To: Vaquero
If there once was another planet named Theia, who came up with the name?
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:22:53 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: Vaquero
“named Theia”
who came up with that?
“4.5 billion years ago and that it collided with Earth to form the moon”
rubbish. that wouldn’t account for the rotation.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:26:25 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: dr_who
LOL excellent point. Perhaps it’s where the Thetans came from....
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:26:28 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: dr_who
the guys who proposed this theory, I suppose gave the planet the name.....
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:27:30 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Vaquero
( Of course, the real name of that planet was actually Mondas, but it's often better to humor some ignorant Earthlings than debate commonly known facts)
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:27:38 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: chuck_the_tv_out
ah, Dr. Chuck, the planetary scientist.
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:28:40 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Vaquero; SunkenCiv
We should be able to see it pretty soon if it’s ‘arriving’ in 2012, doncha’ think?
At least that’s what I hear on the world wide web.
;-)
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:28:45 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(God, Bless America, please.)
To: Vaquero
"The only theory that works is that Xenu parked the moon in it's current orbit just to prove that he could!"
To: dr_who
If there once was another planet named Theia, who came up with the name? I'd say it was a gamer geek who ran into her at a gamer's convention....
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:30:32 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: dr_who
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:30:41 PM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: Vaquero
Hey, I’m commenting on the story, so you have to come & give me personal hassle? You babysitting you poast?
To: chuck_the_tv_out
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:32:08 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: brytlea
"Thetans"......? Umm....not quite...
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:34:50 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: r9etb
How hard did he run into her? Must have been the highlight of his life.
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:36:03 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: Vaquero
I believe in Pluto power. I would bet (if I were a betting man) that there is a Federal grant at the bottom of this story.
LLS
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:37:01 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
To: Vaquero
The Search for the Solar System's Lost Planet Have they tried looking under the sofa cushions?
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:41:53 PM PDT
by
SampleMan
(Socialism and Liberty are mutually exclusive.)
To: dr_who
A whole family of tin woodsmen?
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:42:19 PM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: Vaquero
Anything left would sefely be sitting at the Lagrange points and wouldn’t pose any danger to us. Fortunately this is a bit of a side job for an existing mission so the cost isn’t huge.
It’s really just an attempt to gather some evidence to support the theory.
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posted on
04/13/2009 12:43:39 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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