We could have nine planets after all

Started by PopeyesPappy, January 20, 2016, 04:49:30 PM

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PopeyesPappy

#30
January 22, 2016, 12:49:27 PM
Quote from: SGOS on January 22, 2016, 12:15:15 PM
Chances are the planet will be at the other side of it's orbit.  Thankfully, Voyager is not likely to crash on it.  So, we're good.

The orbit is estimated to be 10 to 20 thousand years so in 74 it won't have gone far.

Is Voyager even headed in that direction?
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#31
January 22, 2016, 01:03:20 PM
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on January 22, 2016, 12:49:27 PM
The orbit is estimated to be 10 to 20 thousand years so in 74 it won't have gone far.

Is Voyager even headed in that direction?

I don't think so. Those calculations were done in the what-if V1 is going towards planet X.

Nonsensei

#32
January 22, 2016, 06:58:05 PM
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on January 21, 2016, 10:12:49 AM
They have evidence that it exists now in the form of the gravitational effects it exerts on other objects. It has cleared it's orbital area. That's one of the requirements for an object to meet the current definition of planet. That's not the same as direct observation, but it is some of the same kind of evidence we have for the existence of dark matter or the super massive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.

Here is the image that Joseph linked earlier.



Are they suggesting this thing makes it almost all the way to the orbit of Jupiter? Wow.
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#33
January 22, 2016, 07:05:23 PM
I expect by the time it gets near again, we'll be able to go get it for use as building material. It'll let us make the Dyson sphere a bit thicker.
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#34
January 22, 2016, 10:52:37 PM
No, that's an inset. According to the diagram, planet X doesn't even get as close as the Kuiper belt. Otherwise, the diagram doesn't make a lick of sense.
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#35
January 23, 2016, 03:53:49 AM
Quote from: Hakurei Reimu on January 22, 2016, 10:52:37 PM
No, that's an inset. According to the diagram, planet X doesn't even get as close as the Kuiper belt. Otherwise, the diagram doesn't make a lick of sense.

Typical visual propaganda directed against the visually challenged.
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#36
January 23, 2016, 04:22:08 AM
Quote from: Nonsensei on January 22, 2016, 06:58:05 PM
Are they suggesting this thing makes it almost all the way to the orbit of Jupiter? Wow.

The closest it would come would be Neptune’s edge at about 30 AU. (30 x 1.5 x 1011m)...small chance of a collision.

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#37
January 23, 2016, 11:18:35 AM
How long until folks start calling it Nibiru?


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#38
January 26, 2016, 05:15:20 PM
If Trump becomes president he'll probably insist on calling it Trump.
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