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To: SunkenCiv

Planet x used to sound so cool. Then they found planet x after decades of denial, so downgraded planet 9 so they didn’t have to call Haumea a planet. Even found a planet xi.


4 posted on 02/28/2019 8:54:04 PM PST by dangus
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To: dangus

There is no planet x, and they never found one. It was an error based on an overestimation of the mass of Neptune.

“Following the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846, there was considerable speculation that another planet might exist beyond its orbit. The search began in the mid-19th century and continued at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell’s quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the giant planets, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.

Clyde Tombaugh’s discovery of Pluto in 1930 appeared to validate Lowell’s hypothesis, and Pluto was officially named the ninth planet. In 1978, Pluto was conclusively determined to be too small for its gravity to affect the giant planets, resulting in a brief search for a tenth planet. The search was largely abandoned in the early 1990s, when a study of measurements made by the Voyager 2 spacecraft found that the irregularities observed in Uranus’s orbit were due to a slight overestimation of Neptune’s mass”


8 posted on 02/28/2019 9:07:26 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: dangus
Same thing happened at Apple. ;^)

16 posted on 02/28/2019 10:53:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: dangus

Sounds more like “Plan IX from Outer Space”.


27 posted on 03/01/2019 12:51:00 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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