[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. There is no counter Earth (we’ve had “far side” probes) but the article isn’t correct about much else. In the unlikely event that a planet of exactly the same mass were in the same orbit around the Sun, it wouldn’t necessarily over the long run gain or lose any more ground than Earth would from Jupiter — the author makes it sound otherwise. Presumably he didn’t think he had to think too deeply about something already known to be untrue.

It is also true that the “counter-Earth” has resulted in some atrociously bad science fiction shows. Have never read the Gor novels, although in my youth was a big fan of the cover art.

I think cuban leaf may be onto something though...

;’)

http://nineplanets.org/hypo.html

[SunkenCiv]

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