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Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System's Edge
Space.com ^
| 12/01/2010
| Space.com
Posted on 12/04/2010 7:32:45 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Our sun may have a companion that disturbs comets from the edge of the solar system a giant planet with up to four times the mass of Jupiter, researchers suggest.
A NASA space telescope launched last year may soon detect such a stealth companion to our sun, if it actually exists, in the distant icy realm of the comet-birthing Oort cloud, which surrounds our solar system with billions of icy objects.
The potential jumbo Jupiter would likely be a world so frigid it is difficult to spot, researchers said. It could be found up to 30,000 astronomical units from the sun. One AU is the distance between the Earth and the sun, about 93 million miles (150 million km).
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; danielwhitmire; deusexmachina; johnmatese; jupiter; nemesis; neptune; nibiru; oortcloud; saturn; science; space; tyche; uranus; wise; xplanets
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To: The Magical Mischief Tour
gore was right — global warming is now having an effect on a COSMIC scale!
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:33:39 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Lt. Drebin: Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
They suggest that during its orbit, this red dwarf or brown dwarf star would regularly enter the Oort cloud, jostling the orbits of many comets there and causing some to fall toward Earth. That would provide an explanation for what seems to be a cycle of mass extinctions here.Hmmmm...
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:36:08 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Oh, yes, and once upon a time the Giant Red Dwarf kicked over the Oort Cloud pummeling Earth with comets. And all the dinosaurs died.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:36:56 PM PST
by
muawiyah
(GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
To: muawiyah
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
And surprisingly, its due to transit the inner solar system around 2012.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:40:15 PM PST
by
Errant
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
And surprisingly, its due to transit the inner solar system around 2012.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:40:22 PM PST
by
Errant
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
It sounds vaguely mythological.
“Long ago, before your great grandmothers time, there was another sun, a dark sun. When it came close, death fell from the sky. The dark sun left, but one day, it will return...”
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12/04/2010 7:41:19 PM PST
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: SunkenCiv
Seems we here about this thing about once or twice a year.
Very fascinating topic, even though there is no evidence of such an object.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:42:48 PM PST
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:49:01 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(What is the difference between 0bama and his dog, Bo? Bo has papers.)
To: MAexile
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:50:04 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: GeronL
Mondas? The homeworld of the orignal cybermen.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:52:09 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
Now wait a minute. We are finding planets several light years away, but can not find one on the edge of our own solar system? That makes no sense what so ever.
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12/04/2010 7:52:32 PM PST
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catfish1957
(Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
To: GeronL
Nemesis, yes, I think so.
There was a study many years ago that back-tracked certain comets back to where Nemesis was supposed to have passed.
I’m gonna need pictures or a good radar ping, though, evidence so far is conjectural.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:54:02 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: DBrow
I agree. Pure speculation.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:55:13 PM PST
by
GeronL
To: catfish1957
There’s no nearby star whose “wiggles” can be detected.
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:55:59 PM PST
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muawiyah
(GIT OUT THE WAY ~ REPUBLICANS COMIN' THROUGH)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
I could swear I’ve read this as a scifi plot. Maybe Fred Hoyle.
Freegards
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posted on
12/04/2010 7:57:57 PM PST
by
Ransomed
To: GeronL
Zecharia Sitchin’s Nibiru?
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12/04/2010 7:58:18 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Sittin' in da back of da bus since January 2009.)
To: The Magical Mischief Tour
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12/04/2010 8:01:24 PM PST
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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