Posted on 03/19/2010 7:30:45 PM PDT by TaraP
Nasa scientists are searching for an invisible 'Death Star' that circles the Sun, which catapults potentially catastrophic comets at the Earth. The star, also known as Nemesis, is five times the size of Jupiter and could be to blame for the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
The bombardment of icy missiles is being blamed by some scientists for mass extinctions of life that they say happen every 26 million years
Nemesis is predicted to lie at a distance equal to 25,000 times that of the Earth from the Sun, or a third of a light-year.
Astronomers believe it is of a type called a red or brown dwarf – a "failed star" that has not managed to generate enough energy to burn like the Sun.
But it should be detectable by a heat-sensitive space telescope called WISE, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Launched last year, WISE began surveying the skies in January. It is expected to discover a 1000 brown dwarfs within 25 light-years of the Sun – right on our cosmic doorstep – before its coolant runs out in October.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Interesting. Is this thing outbound or is it inbound?
Sedna, is more like a large asteroid type of thing, smaller than Pluto, at 800-1100 miles diameter. That's the object in the strange, 12,000 yr. orbit mentioned in the article, right?
I'm getting the idea that the Sedna discovery helped lead to the "size" speculation of this yet-to-be-found but expected to exist dark companion star?
Jack H. Where’d you find the pic of Pelosi traveling in disguise?
From Bibical Scripture: Did God stop the sun, as it says Isaiah 38:8? Yes, God did cause the sun appear to stop for King Hezekiah, but He also made it run backwards. The indicator of this was the shadow on a sundial. The great debate over this instance focuses on whether the Lord influenced the movement of the sun, the earth, or the shadow itself. Evolutionists like to use this passage to blame the Bible for agreeing with the falsehood that the sun moved across the sky, and the earth remained stationary. The fact is, the Lord simply said that He would move the sun's shadow. God could have accomplished this task by bending light or tilting the ground on which the sundial rested. I don't see why people think God should have said, "I'll make the earth run backwards for you." The Lord was giving a direct sign that He would give the King 15 more years to live, and it doesn't really matter how He made the shadow reverse itself. "And this shall be a sign unto thee from the LORD, that the LORD will do this thing that he hath spoken; Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down" (Isa. 38:7-8).
Maybe
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This theory has actually been around for a long time. I first heard of this back in 1969/1970. Unfortunately for me at the time I shot my mouth off about it in school and instantly became a laughing stock. At the time I found the theory credible and it seems that it could indeed be very real. So, piss-off to my Classmates of ‘74 on this one.
How’d you know!?!?!? LOL!
Hmmmmmm.
Thx.
OTOH, I prefer to believe that the Creator has absolute control over spacetime, so there are any number of adustments that could have been applied...
IOW, the "winged disk" image has nothing to do with the bright object, and everything to do with an aberration in the SOHO instrumentation. 
From that, I don't see the connection to 15 years of the king's lifetime...
Everyone knows it's Da JOOOZTM!
(Jimmuh Carter told me so!)
Hmmm...the above image won't hotlink on FR, but you can see it at
http://transientsky.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/soho_comet.png
The theory is this dark (actually twin) star’s orbit is so long and elliptical that it’s impact is only noticed when it comes around and gravitationally pulls objects out of the Oort cloud.
Which is how we get craters :)
Never mind the death of the dinosaurs. Could this be the cause of the possible comet strike in the Northern Hemisphere that destroyed the Clovis culture, killed the large mammals and triggered the thousand year Younger Dryas cooling?
I don't see any of that as an argument against the existence of this red dwarf Nemesis however and if Nemesis can be shown to exist, we need to get a look at it. One theory about habitable planets says that the most likely places for them would be around red dwarf stars.
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