Posted on 02/15/2011 7:33:38 PM PST by edpc
A duo of planetary astronomers has grabbed media attention by claiming a planet four times the size of Jupiter may be lurking in the outer solar system. They call the planet Tyche.
Many astronomers, however, say it probably isn't there.
The claim by John Matese and Daniel Whitmire of the University of Lousiana-Lafayette is not new: They have been making a case for Tyche since 1999, suggesting that the giant planet's presence in a far-flung region of solar system called the Oort cloud would explain the unusual orbital paths of some comets that originate there.
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It has to be there. All these damn liberals have got to be coming from somewhere!
Ping for your respective lists.
Is this Streichen’s wandering planet?
One day you have it, the next you do not.LOL
LOL! reminds me of Neil Abercrombie...he was sure it was there, but when he got there it was gone.
They claim....
they doubt.....
Were saying that perhaps....
It’s possible that it’s a statistical fluke....
Not everyone is as optimistic.
The scientists all know so much they cant even agree with each other.
But somehow we’re supposed to buy their consensus on man-caused climate change.
February 15, 2011
Is a Massive Hidden Planet At the Edge of the Oort Cloud Hurtling Comets Towards Earth?
Our sun may have a stealth 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 , 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 giant 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.
The giant planet is hidden in our Solar System according to scientists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. According to the team, a colossus called Tyche is hidden in the Oort Cloud—the asteroid beehive that forms the outer shell of our home system, one light-year in radius. They claim that data already captured by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer proves its existence.
Matese and Whitmire are convinced that Tyche composed mostly of hydrogen and helium is very real orbiting 15,000 times farther from the Sun than Earth, orbiting the Sun with moons and rings and an athmosphere with clouds and storm systems similar to Jupiter with a mild temperature (-73ºC/-99.4ºF).
If Tyche’s existence is confirmed, its Solar System planet status may not be debated that Tyche could be a planet born in another star system and captured by ours.
he Daily Galaxy via NASA
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/02/is-a-massive-hidden-planet-at-the-edge-of-the-oort-cloud-hurtling-comets-towards-earth.html#more
Ought to find it before you name it...but good luck (tyche) finding it!
Now this is a Tyche subject.
I have no doubt that tax payer dollars were expended. But the charts are really nice ... probably at a few hundred million dollars each!
BTW there’s an asteroid named Tyche, I think its number is 258.
I'm not good enough to figure out the physics, but it seems that holding an orbit around the Sun for an object that large, and that far away is problematical.
Not that I'd understand them, but it would be interesting to see some Newtonian calculations on that.
BTW there’s an asteroid named Tyche, I think its number is 258.
who the hell cares if there is another planet or not???????
Sounds like a search for Nibiru and the Mayan 2012 thing.
The planet is made of dark matter and reflects dark light invisible to all detection but I know it’s there, I just know it is.
How? That will take another job protection grant to answer.
I do!!!!!!! I am sad if you don't.
Thanks 4 ping!
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