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Mystery object in weird orbit beyond Neptune cannot be explained
newscientist.com ^ | Shannon Hall

Posted on 08/12/2016 10:46:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The TNO orbits in a plane that’s tilted 110 degrees to the plane of the solar system. What’s more, it swings around the sun backwards unlike most of the other objects in the solar system. With this in mind, the team that discovered the TNO nicknamed it “Niku” after the Chinese adjective for rebellious.

To grasp how truly rebellious it is, remember that a flat plane is the signature of a planetary system, as a star-forming gas cloud creates a flat disk of dust and gas around it. “Angular momentum forces everything to have that one spin direction all the same way,” says Bannister. “It’s the same thing with a spinning top, every particle is spinning the same direction.”

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Batygin was one of two astronomers who earlier this year announced that the presence of another highly inclined group of objects could be pointing toward a large undiscovered world, perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth, lurking even further away – the so-called Planet Nine.

Upon further analysis, the new TNO appears to be part of another group orbiting in a highly inclined plane, so Holman’s team tested to see if their objects could also be attributed to the gravitational pull of Planet Nine.

It turns out Niku is too close to the solar system to be within the suggested world’s sphere of influence, so there must be another explanation. The team also tried to see if an undiscovered dwarf planet, perhaps similar to Pluto, could supply an explanation, but didn’t have any luck. “We don’t know the answer,” says Holman.

(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: mystery; niku
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To: Bratch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UBhUSnZKwo


21 posted on 08/12/2016 11:10:17 AM PDT by bigbob (The Hillary indictment will have to come from us.)
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To: BenLurkin

more than one solar system and one galaxy and one universe....exerting force on ours...
we are but a flea on an elephant’s ass.......


22 posted on 08/12/2016 11:11:44 AM PDT by zzwhale (no way)
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To: BenLurkin
The TNO orbits in a plane that’s tilted 110 degrees to the plane of the solar system. What’s more, it swings around the sun backwards unlike most of the other objects in the solar system.


23 posted on 08/12/2016 11:14:15 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: BenLurkin

24 posted on 08/12/2016 11:15:09 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m highly inclined to believe this report.


25 posted on 08/12/2016 11:18:12 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

I think I’m in trouble. I lost a partially completed death star a few years ago.

5.56mm


26 posted on 08/12/2016 11:18:26 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: CivilWarBrewing

If Nibiru were that far away, I doubt that people would be taking pictures of it.


27 posted on 08/12/2016 11:21:41 AM PDT by firebrand
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To: BenLurkin

It might be our original solar system before the CERN Large Hydron Collider sucked us into the evil mirror mirror universe.


28 posted on 08/12/2016 11:21:45 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: HombreSecreto
Death Star

Bomb #20

29 posted on 08/12/2016 11:23:37 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: BenLurkin

Rose Law Firm records? Hillary’s emails?


30 posted on 08/12/2016 11:27:28 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: BenLurkin

Jimmy Hoffa?


31 posted on 08/12/2016 11:36:00 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: BenLurkin
This should be interesting given that it is only possible to incline 90 degrees from the plane of the elliptic.

To provide an easy to understand example, think of the Earth's equator as the solar system's plane of the elliptic. This is the reference point for all lines of latitude.

Lines of longitude pass through the equator and both poles. As such they are inclined 90 degrees from the equator.

Therefore, the referenced Trans Neptune Object (TNO) CANNOT be tilted 110 degrees from the place of the elliptic. It is possible for it to be in a retrograde orbit but that only makes it more interesting since it means that it did NOT form from the same material as the solar system.

"Ceterum censeo Hillary esse delendam."

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32 posted on 08/12/2016 11:37:27 AM PDT by LonePalm (Commander and Chef)
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To: RightGeek

Shocked that it took almost 30 minutes for somebody to post this!


33 posted on 08/12/2016 11:38:42 AM PDT by Gamecock (There is always one more idiot than you counted on.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m not an expert on the Solar system, but I believe that its the pull from the masses of the other planets that causes the alignments and that the ones that are furthest out require more time to achieve this alignment and that they’re merely in a transition stage.


34 posted on 08/12/2016 11:38:43 AM PDT by chopperman
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To: BenLurkin

Find someone to go and investigate.

35 posted on 08/12/2016 11:43:19 AM PDT by JPG (Go Trump!)
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To: LonePalm

A captured wandering planet


36 posted on 08/12/2016 11:43:46 AM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: LonePalm

They must be measuring from the opposite direction seeing that this object is in retrograde orbit.............


37 posted on 08/12/2016 11:46:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: firebrand
If Nibiru were that far away, I doubt that people would be taking pictures of it.

I doubt that people are taking pictures of it...

38 posted on 08/12/2016 11:50:38 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: BenLurkin
Look gravity radiates out so to speak in all directions so you can order it any direction or plane. hell we launch satellites in to polar orbit all the time

Planets orbit in the same direction same plane today because they from the sun's disk so they all have the same orbit as they all form from the same basic Orbit

Clearly this object was not formed with solar system but an out side object captured by the sun gravity as it pass by.. .. hence being in it own unique orbit around the sun ..its Korn current orbit is a reflection of the path its was taking when it was captured

39 posted on 08/12/2016 11:52:14 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: BenLurkin

its the evil space aliens’ mother ship.... waiting to pick up Obama after he’s done destroying Earth


40 posted on 08/12/2016 11:54:15 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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