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Scientists may have found Planet X, the mysterious presence that has eluded astronomers
National Post ^ | December 11, 2015 | Sarah Kaplan

Posted on 12/12/2015 1:40:04 AM PST by Squawk 8888

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1 posted on 12/12/2015 1:40:04 AM PST by Squawk 8888
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To: Squawk 8888

Yet another Planet X claim...


2 posted on 12/12/2015 1:40:43 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yet another Planet X claim...


3 posted on 12/12/2015 1:41:01 AM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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To: Squawk 8888

Mongo says: “Damn those nosy Earthlings!”


4 posted on 12/12/2015 1:45:48 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Squawk 8888

I just want to go home...


5 posted on 12/12/2015 1:56:25 AM PST by Norm Lenhart (`)
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To: Squawk 8888
Does Algore have anything to do with this?
6 posted on 12/12/2015 1:56:27 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum)
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To: Squawk 8888; BenLurkin

Thanks S’, will ping later, and this is related to something I sent BenLurkin a while ago.


7 posted on 12/12/2015 2:11:40 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Squawk 8888

It has actually been suspected for a long time that there is around a 3 Jupiter mass object somewhere in the Oort cloud. This is mainly due to studies showing there is a statistical bias in the direction that long period comets seem to come from, as though something is disturbing their normally circular orbital paths. But I’ll wait until more information comes out until I’ll buy into any of this.


8 posted on 12/12/2015 2:21:52 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Squawk 8888
If you drew a line from Planet Y to Planet W ... using a ruler or any straight-edge ... then focus on the planets that falls on that line.

There still are a ton of planets between W and Y, it's outer space after all, vast and mysterious, but you'd eliminate all planets before or after those two.

Trivia
Planet O is the only planet that's shaped like its name. When you say it, your mouth makes the same shape. Coincidentally, the number 0 tilted mimics the orbit of most planets that aren't in a perfect orbit - that's why the Moon is spelled with two 0's.

If the zero's suddenly turned into an '@' sign, you can bet we'd all be dead in the blink of an i. Chickens come from eggs which are also shaped like a zero, having a yellow-orange core like a the molten center of the Earth, but what if Earth hatched?

9 posted on 12/12/2015 2:31:53 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: gleeaikin

http://www.techinsider.io/planet-x-alpha-centauri-2015-12

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-a-star-storm-and-maybe-planet-x

http://www.inquisitr.com/2625622/two-new-planets-found-planet-x-possible-super-earth-spotted-astronomers-claim/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/11/scientists-claimed-they-found-the-elusive-planet-x-now-astronomers-are-in-an-uproar/

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/astronomers-question-claim-of-super-planet-found-at-solar-systems-edge/

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/astronomers-skeptical-over-planet-x-claims/

and, for the total nuttery version:

Giant HIDDEN PLANET X to ‘smash into Earth THIS MONTH’
[snip] Alien contactee Gordon James Gianninoto said: “As it goes by it’s going to grab the crust and flight it up over the North Pole and let go of it — and when it lets go, the North Pole is going to be the eastern tip of Brasil.” Mr Gianninoto claims China is already preparing for the resulting chaos by building great empty “ghost” cities [/snip]
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/478807/Nibiru-planet-x-december-2015-end-world-apocalypse-prophecy-conspiracy-theory-nasa-truth


10 posted on 12/12/2015 2:45:59 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: tinyowl
"Planet O is the only planet that's shaped like its name...."

I am very interested. Please tell me more about your religion.
Would I be worshipping you, or would you be pointing me to a heavenly body to worship? Maybe this "Moon" thing you speak of?

11 posted on 12/12/2015 2:55:29 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: Squawk 8888

..somewhere, Art Bell is smiling....


12 posted on 12/12/2015 2:56:45 AM PST by Willie From Austin
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To: tinyowl
More trivia:

1. When Astronomers finally do plot the exact location in space of "Planet X," they will mark it with an "X."

2. If you are among those who still consider Pluto to be a full-fledged planet, and who therefore still believe that our Solar System has nine known planets, then Planet X will increase that to 10 - or, in Roman numerals, X.

Regards,

13 posted on 12/12/2015 3:00:35 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: tinyowl

If you drew a line from Planet Y to Planet W ... using a ruler or any straight-edge...

French curve might be better.

Look, there it was.


14 posted on 12/12/2015 3:10:15 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

How many still know what a French Curve is.


15 posted on 12/12/2015 3:15:35 AM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled-...by liars who passing refuse the. news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Or a horsehair drafting brush?


16 posted on 12/12/2015 3:19:59 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Rome2000

We are antiques.


17 posted on 12/12/2015 3:22:10 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Squawk 8888

When will bpearthwatch begin forecasting our imminent deaths from it, that’s the real question.
*snicker*


18 posted on 12/12/2015 3:26:11 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: alexander_busek
Exactly.

Sometimes the universe seems like it was settled by an American, sometimes the Romans. But we know this for sure: There can only be 26 planets at any given time, plus the so called 'special planets' eg, Planet #, Planet ! and the shortest planet, Planet _. Each one having its own memories of good times and bad times, just like any other person.

And isn't that how it should be.

19 posted on 12/12/2015 3:27:47 AM PST by tinyowl (A equals A)
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To: Squawk 8888
Excerpt:

Here's what Vlemmings and his colleague say they found:

A large rocky something they call "Gna" (for a fast-moving Nordic messenger goddess, one of the authors told Scientific American), that could be an asteroid-type object roughly the size of Ireland zooming around somewhere near Uranus. Alternatively, the researchers propose, it could be an undiscovered planet floating much farther out, or even a brown-dwarf (bigger than a planet, smaller than a star) passing through interstellar space.

Also, a mysterious, unnamed object that appears in the sky close to the Alpha Centauri system that may be a "Super-Earth" planet far beyond even Pluto or a super-cool brown dwarf that's really far. It could also conceivably be an icy "trans Neptunian object," of which there are plenty in the frozen darkness past the eighth planet, but the researchers say that's less likely (it's also, not coincidentally, less interesting).

20 posted on 12/12/2015 3:38:56 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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