The earthlings have found us. Let them come!
Yet another Planet X claim...
Yet another Planet X claim...
I just want to go home...
Thanks S’, will ping later, and this is related to something I sent BenLurkin a while ago.
It has actually been suspected for a long time that there is around a 3 Jupiter mass object somewhere in the Oort cloud. This is mainly due to studies showing there is a statistical bias in the direction that long period comets seem to come from, as though something is disturbing their normally circular orbital paths. But I’ll wait until more information comes out until I’ll buy into any of this.
There still are a ton of planets between W and Y, it's outer space after all, vast and mysterious, but you'd eliminate all planets before or after those two.
Trivia
Planet O is the only planet that's shaped like its name. When you say it, your mouth makes the same shape. Coincidentally, the number 0 tilted mimics the orbit of most planets that aren't in a perfect orbit - that's why the Moon is spelled with two 0's.
If the zero's suddenly turned into an '@' sign, you can bet we'd all be dead in the blink of an i. Chickens come from eggs which are also shaped like a zero, having a yellow-orange core like a the molten center of the Earth, but what if Earth hatched?
..somewhere, Art Bell is smiling....
When will bpearthwatch begin forecasting our imminent deaths from it, that’s the real question.
*snicker*
Here's what Vlemmings and his colleague say they found:
A large rocky something they call "Gna" (for a fast-moving Nordic messenger goddess, one of the authors told Scientific American), that could be an asteroid-type object roughly the size of Ireland zooming around somewhere near Uranus. Alternatively, the researchers propose, it could be an undiscovered planet floating much farther out, or even a brown-dwarf (bigger than a planet, smaller than a star) passing through interstellar space.
Also, a mysterious, unnamed object that appears in the sky close to the Alpha Centauri system that may be a "Super-Earth" planet far beyond even Pluto or a super-cool brown dwarf that's really far. It could also conceivably be an icy "trans Neptunian object," of which there are plenty in the frozen darkness past the eighth planet, but the researchers say that's less likely (it's also, not coincidentally, less interesting).
What they really saw is a little blip and then 6 months later another little blip.
Does this mean that King Ghidorah will be unleashed soon?
The earthlings have found us. Let them come!
“roughly the size of Ireland zooming around somewhere near Uranus”
I don’t want no flippin Irishman hanging around my anus!
Before the flaming starts, I’m Irish!
Related to Malcolm?
They sure they didn’t find Planet XXX, the Nude Beach Planet in Futurama?