[BenLurkin]

Maybe it can be "person of the year"....

[omega4179]

inb4 Abovetopsecret.com, niburu,nemesis and wormwood

[Ev Reeman]

There is the possibility that the Earth might be impacted by a very large meteor sometime in the future. We should start now to prepare for just such an eventuality.

[Le Chien Rouge]

Art Bell would spend hours on a story like this.

[OldDeckHand]

Two words: Death Star. Just saying.

[wendy1946]

What you’re talking about is entirely like asking gravity to hold two nearly microscopic dust motes together from a mile distance. That’s basically idiotic.

[starlifter]

Pinggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

[KoRn]

In before all of the stupid “Uranus”, “AlGore”, and “Islam” jokes!

[ThunderSleeps]

How suggestive the evidence actually is, though, depends on whom you ask. If you ask Ned Wright, a UCLA astrophysicist and WISE principal investigator, he'll tell you, "It's really kind of flimsy. It's there, but they don't have super data."

Hey, just like global warming! Work with thin, flimsy data, or faked/altered data (doesn't matter to the GW "scientists").

I think these guys should borrow a page from the GW playbook and just carry on like the science was "settled" - start planning a mission to Tyche.

[Palmetto Patriot]

Planet Kramden

[Levante]

Maybe it’s a mirror Earth....

See ‘Journey to the Far Side of the Sun’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEh1WyKWJ8

[wastedyears]

It's not a planet...

(somebody had to...)

[samtheman]

If so, it’s the 10th planet... not the 9th.

[Snickering Hound]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/14/no-theres-no-proof-of-a-giant-planet-in-the-outer-solar-system/#more-28256

[Walts Ice Pick]

I think we should name this planet GlennBeck.

[Whenifhow]

The Destroyer - Our Binary Partner and Why You Will Not See It Coming
LUCUS 1/31/11 1:55AM CST

http://rabbithole2.com/news/top_news/the_destroyer_our_binary_partner_and_why_you_will_not_see_it.php

[irishtenor]

If it is a Red Dwarf we could call it Planet Smeg.

(For all you RD fans :>)

[Prospero]

These guys... man... I mean, this story is so old it has hair on it...

[Bean Counter]

This story is remarkable only in how neatly it swipes part of the plot from Larry Niven’s SciFi novel “Lucifer’s Hammer”, which describes a “dark planet” that throws a comet in toward the Earth.

yah...that’s one place where you heard this one before....

[Joya]

I just today heard about Elenin.

Elenin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2010_X1

Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is a long-period comet discovered by Russian astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010 at International Scientific Optical Network’s robotic observatory near Mayhill, New Mexico, U.S.A.

C/2010 X1 will come to perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on 10 September 2011 at a distance of about 0.48 AU. On 16 October 2011, the comet will pass within about 0.23 AU (34,000,000 km; 21,000,000 mi) of the Earth[2] at a relative velocity of 85,000 km/hr.[2] This relatively bright comet can reach 6th magnitude on September-October 2011.

Given the orbital eccentricity of this object, different epochs can generate quite different heliocentric unperturbed two-body best-fit solutions to the aphelion distance (maximum distance) of this object.