Possible Gas Giant Beyond Pluto

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This story came out a few weeks ago but I just read about it, it says that there might be a gas giant or brown dwarf star might be beyond Pluto in the Ort Cloud with a 27 million year orbit of the Sun named Tyche, it could explain why we see long term comets coming from the wrong direction, and explain why we have an extinction level event on Earth about every 27 million years.  New data from NASA's WISE telescope could determine if it is really there or not.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/15/scientists-telescope-hunt-massive-hidden-object-in-space/

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/02/14/new-planet-tyche-gas-giant-could-lurk-past-pulto/

[Plazus]

This mystery planet beyond Pluto is actually an old story. There are stories about Planet X, Nibiru, and a slew of other things. Conspiracy theorists claim that this mystery planet makes a close pass by Earth's orbit every couple thousand years and causes mass destruction. They even claim that some kind of event like this will happen in Dec. 21, 2012. Conspiracy theorists just spout a bunch of garbage with no evidence to support anything.

As for there being another planet? It's certainly possible.

[Tupac]

I think we could see it if it was a star

[Buzzard7]

Brown dwarf star is very hard to see. It is more like a large gas planet.

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This mystery planet beyond Pluto is actually an old story. There are stories about Planet X, Nibiru, and a slew of other things. Conspiracy theorists claim that this mystery planet makes a close pass by Earth's orbit every couple thousand years and causes mass destruction. They even claim that some kind of event like this will happen in Dec. 21, 2012. Conspiracy theorists just spout a bunch of garbage with no evidence to support anything.

As for there being another planet? It's certainly possible.

This story doesn't claim the planet comes anywhere near Earth, just that it is far out in the Ort Cloud, about 15000 times farther then the Earth to the Sun, it just says it disturbs comets out there sending into the inner solar system.  They say that with the new NASA WISE telescope they may have the data showing it's there, they said they might know by April.

I think we could see it if it was a star

Not if it's a Brown Dwarf star, it would be too dim to be seen easily.

[moot]

The guys that said something about it got picked up out of proportion by the press.  They didn't actually say anything conclusive either way, IIRC only that they were looking at the data again. CNN wouldn't get into details enough to keep its audience's attention.  If you go to EG badastronomy blog, you should find enough clues that lead to full accurate facts

I think we could see it if it was a star

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf
Or even just Jupiter sized

[Blooz]

What if it's...

[Tupac]

What if it's...

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That's not the 10th planet.......that's a battle station

[Melvin]

Perhaps someone should check the coordinates....



 

[Tupac]

Perhaps someone should check the coordinates....

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[MORAY37]

This story came out a few weeks ago but I just read about it, it says that there might be a gas giant or brown dwarf star might be beyond Pluto in the Ort Cloud with a 27 million year orbit of the Sun named Tyche, it could explain why we see long term comets coming from the wrong direction, and explain why we have an extinction level event on Earth about every 27 million years.  New data from NASA's WISE telescope could determine if it is really there or not.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/15/scientists-telescope-hunt-massive-hidden-object-in-space/

http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/2011/02/14/new-planet-tyche-gas-giant-could-lurk-past-pulto/

I seem to remember reading an article about this when it was proven that something that far out could not have a stable orbit, and would vary by as much as 50% over long time spans, due to the gravitational wells of passing stars and the interaction between them....

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I seem to remember reading an article about this when it was proven that something that far out could not have a stable orbit, and would vary by as much as 50% over long time spans, due to the gravitational wells of passing stars and the interaction between them....

Well if you can find it please post it, I'd love to read it.

[moot]

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/02/14/no-theres-no-proof-of-a-giant-planet-in-the-outer-solar-system/
http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/03/where-is-tyche-the-new-10th-9th-planet-getting-to-the-bottom-of-the-story.ars

[ozrocker]

I dropped a Brown Giant this morning. Probably will on 12/21 also.

                                                          <S> Oz

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