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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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A captured wandering planet

Very like.

It would be most interesting to somehow obtain a sample, and compare the age of its material with that known otherwise.

The good scientifically determined age of our solar system, derived from a variety of agreeing phenomena, is ~5.5 billion years. This is the maximum age of any material (meteorites) that we can physically derive from it. Similar age derivation of the universe however, is ~13.5 billion years. So where is the difference?

If this object in fact orbits "the Sun backwards", it's possibly a remnant of earlier stellar system development, and thus would present good age-test of that which to now, has only been ascertained.

51 posted on 08/12/2016 12:41:00 PM PDT by onedoug
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