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To: RayChuang88

“possibly a very faint brown dwarf “

I think if we had a brown dwarf in our solar system we would know it.


13 posted on 06/05/2018 12:30:32 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TexasGator

“I think if we had a brown dwarf in our solar system we would know it.”

There’s some living in a hole in my garden.


19 posted on 06/05/2018 12:54:09 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: TexasGator
I think if we had a brown dwarf in our solar system we would know it.

The infrared Webb space telescope has ruled that out.

It easily would have picked up a brown or red dwarf.

Jury is still out on a earth sized or superearth.

20 posted on 06/05/2018 12:54:15 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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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.


24 posted on 06/05/2018 1:15:39 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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