Posted on 09/01/2024 8:55:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists found that Sedna... had a weird orbit around the sun... hinted that another large mass in the outer solar system was gravitationally pulling on the miniworld...
Then, in a 2014 study, astronomers announced that they had detected... 2012 VP113, with an eccentric orbit similar to Sedna's... Since 2016, Brown, Batygin and others... have discovered even more eccentric TNOs — bringing the total to 13...
Planet Nine's composition is probably "most like Neptune," ... around 500 astronomical units away from the sun...
This far out, it could take between 5,000 and 10,000 years for Planet Nine to complete a single trip around the sun. Its orbit is probably highly elliptical... also likely does not orbit on the same plane as the rest of the planets...
Planet Nine's unusual orbit and extreme distance from the sun also raise the possibility that it could be a rogue planet... captured by the sun... However, Brown and Batygin believe Planet Nine likely formed alongside the other planets in the solar system...
Doubts about Planet Nine are rooted in alternative potential explanations ... an invisible giant disk of dust or a historic close encounter with a rogue planet... [or] that our model of gravity needs to be tweaked.
Others believe the apparent TNO kinks are simply an "observational bias," because it is easier to spot TNOs that are closer to Earth than more distant ones, Samantha Lawler, an astronomer at the University of Regina in Canada and a prominent critic of the Planet Nine hypothesis, told Live Science in an email...
In their most recent work, Brown and Batygin analyzed data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) at Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii and confidently ruled out around 78% of the suspected orbital pathway...
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
LOL!
I used to have a reel-to-reel, which made dubbing that onto cassette pretty easy. The deck is long ago sold, but the cassette transfer is around here somewhere. I’d be surprised if there isn’t rip of it on YT.
The asteroid belt makes no sense to me without it, particluarly because of the large size of irregular mineral "particles," but now that we see so many crossing orbits, it becomes more obvious that such is only a matter of time.
You might find it fascinating that this perspective of preparation for eventual catastrophe is elemental to an honest understanding of Genesis. It surely ain't no ex nihilo Creation story.
Nope. We’ll get killed by some other, much smaller piece of space crap, that’s the royal we, so, I’m not worried either.
It’ll collide with its evil twin, Enintenalp.
That’s the one. Flaming globes of Sigmund.
I believe it was all in that documentary, Planet Nine From Outer Space.
Dr. Alan Stern wrote a response to that in an article: "“Why Pluto is a Planet, The Embarrassment of the IAU, and Why They Had It Coming”
It's mentioned in a Forbes article about Stern.
Fax me some halibut.
The main asteroid belt was at one time thought to be the debris of either a planet that got destroyed in a collision, or the potential material that never quite formed as a planet in that location. Nowadays it's generally thought to be material of various origin that has been shepherded into a ring of debris by Jupiter and the Sun.
Knew that. Personally I think it's too close to Jupiter and too confined for that to be true.
I like, "We don't know yet." It's true of too many 'scientific conclusions' in my book.
No matter what planet you go to none of them last forever give up the utopia dream it’s all it is deal with reality.
Thanks, nice incoherence.
It’s based on observation and math, that’s why it is considered true. Unlike the status of Pluto, it isn’t up for a vote.
If he was, he was a highly educated fraud and a lot of archeologists still use him for reference. He may not have been right on some things but on many things he was and still is. Aside from that he was not the only one who speculated about the 3600 year cycle, as Immanuel Velikovsky also made a pretty well documented case for it. But to each his own as we are still entitled to our own opinions. Take care and have a great day!
There are zero archaeologists who take Sitchin’s BS seriously.
The orbital characteristics he claimed for his fictional planet don’t work in Newtonian/Keplerian terms, which isn’t surprising, because they’re entirely made up.
Velikovsky didn’t have anything to do with any 3600 year cycle. Sitchin once claimed that Worlds In Collision came out about the same time as his own monstrosity, but of course it was published more than 25 years earlier.
These are facts, not opinions.
I can’t find it, but after New Horizons beamed back telemetry data post-flyby, to effectively indicate that it didn’t get destroyed by rocks etc during the flyby, Alan Stern came into the auditorium waving a small, hand-held American flag. It was very cool.
Here is a video of Alan Stern reviewing that moment - note at the 1:02 mark the American flags in the coffee cups. https://youtu.be/hi7Si4Ssos4
New Horizons may the the last, great moment of purely American pioneering space exploration.
I hope not.
He’s got a good head on his shoulders.
ah ha mirror mirror!
Speaking of which, ever seen this one? It’s an unintentionally hilarious, crappier version of a Twilight Zone episode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Far_Side_of_the_Sun
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