No Need for Planet Nine? Small Objects' Gravity Could Explain Weird Orbits

Space.com ^ | Nola Taylor Redd,

[Army Air Corps]

It is wonderfully awful.

[onedoug]

“National Moonshine Day”

Yaaahhhooo!

[Red Badger]

I remember seeing it as a kid, 9-10 years old, and I thought it was great!...............

[RayChuang88]

I’d almost agree, but scientists now surmise a brown dwarf could be a lot smaller than originally envisaged (most thought it would be slightly bigger than Jupiter, but you never know). If a very faint brown dwarf about the size of Neptune is out there as a faint companion to our Sun, that may explain all the orbital irregularities we’ve seen from the orbits of Neptune, Pluto and the Kuiper Belt dwarf planets.

[Army Air Corps]

It is a hoot.
Every time Eros says, “Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!”, I lose it, and am reduced to laughing to tears.

[TexasGator]

But much more dense and a higher gravity effect! NO WAY we would not know that it was there. Not to mention it would have a big IR image.

[Red Badger]

I now look for the screw-ups.

Police car changes models in middle of chase scene, headstones made of cardboard blowing in wind, etc.................

[StormEye]

"The infrared Webb space telescope has ruled that out."

The James Webb Telescope won't be launched until 2020.
It's construction hasn't even been completed.

[Army Air Corps]

Indeed!
The airline cockpit set looks like something a High School theatre class might make if they had a budget of $20. :)

[StormEye]

"I heard that Planet Nine was caused by global warming...

...and republicans."

Save the Solar System!
Stop driving SUVs.
Vote for Hillary in 2020.
Kill big Oil and Republicans.

[Swordmaker]

Large objects and small objects will orbit at the same rate as long as they are at the same distance. This is the same principle demonstrated by Galileo that objects accelerate at the same rate. Orbiting is basically falling if just takes longer. Now there is some difference in rate because relativity and all but the difference between the postulated little objects and big objects is not enough. Unless one of the big objects is a planet. So they almost would have to say that planets aren’t planets to make the theory work.

Major problem is that galaxies ignore that law. After reaching about two thirds of the radius out everything orbits at the same rate regardless of mass. To account for that big problem, Cosmologists invented magical unseen things composed of undetectable but somehow massive dark matter. . . which to this day they still can’t find, no matter where they look.

[Red Badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood

[Army Air Corps]

As a B-Movie fan, I am well aware of Ed Wood’s shoestring budget filmmaking. :)

[Red Badger]

But did you know he was a Marine who served at Guadalcanal and Tarawa?...........................

[WKUHilltopper]

“National Moonshine Day

Yaaahhhooo!”

It’ll tickle yer innards.

[Army Air Corps]

Yep.

[trebb]

And when the earth was flat as a pancake - except for the mountains and valleys, of course...