Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University
Posted on 08/05/2007 6:22:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A theory is hereby proposed that an unknown mega-massive planet has, for billions of years, been orbiting at 77.2 AU from the sun -- within a 44 AU-wide, virtually empty Great Void that surrounds the Kuiper Belt (One AU = 93 million miles, the mean Earth-Sun distance). The Void is postulated to have been formed by strong gravitational attraction of the unknown planet having removed all CKBOs (Classical Kuiper Belt Objects) that had existed previously in the vicinity of the massive planet's huge orbit... The 77.2 AU distance from the sun of the proposed unknown planet is derived from a formula and numerical progression conceived by Johann Titius in 1766 and first published by Johann Bode in 1772... Neptune not matching any Bode's Law projected position could be due to that planet having shifted its original orbit from a different position to its present one -- as is theorized by many astronomers. Pluto, discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, was found to be approximately at the mean AU distance where Bode's Law indicated a planet beyond Uranus. In addition, the unknown massive planet projected to exist in the Great Void correlates fairly well with the 77.2 AU distance that Bode's Law proposes for a planet beyond Pluto... The existence of the new unknown planet (which I have named Muriel), cannot be proved until it is located and verified by astronomers. I have given the name Bode to the planet that formerly orbited between Mars and Jupiter until it exploded billions of years ago and broke up into Asteroid Belt fragments.
(Excerpt) Read more at antonnews.com ...
Beulahland.
:’) Or, FatLoudDoNothing — it’s synonymous with Algore.
Looks like we’re in more trouble than I thought.
77.2 AU? Let’s send Congress to investigate.
LOLz!
Nah, the debris is whats left of Alderaan ;)
Astronomers Discover Apparent Outer Edge To The Solar SystemOur solar system may have an outer "edge" just outside the orbit of Pluto, astronomers announced recently. Their results suggest that early in the history of the solar system, some event stripped away most of the planet-building material beyond 50 times Earth's distrance from the sun... It has long been thought that some comets must originate from a collection of small icy bodies orbiting beyond Neptune. These so-called "Kuiper Belt Objects" would be left over from the formation of the large planets 5 billion years ago. The Kuiper Belt Objects were purely hypothetical until 1992, when David Jewitt and Jane Luu of the University of Hawaii discovered the first one. Since that time, over 300 Kuiper Belt Objects have been discovered -but none of them are more than about 55 times as far from the sun as Earth, or 55 AU... Neptune is 30 AU from the sun, and Pluto ranges from between 30 to 50 AU... These observations, in 1998 and 1999, were sensitive enough to see a 160-kilometer (100-mile) Kuiper Belt Object to at least 65 AU.
Science Daily
October 30, 2000
University Of Arizona
Articles by G.BernsteinEvidence Of The Explosion Of A Planet In The Solar System A Few Millions Years AgoExamination of well-determined orbits of 'new' comets shows that these apparently had a common origin in the present location of the asteroid belt about 3.2 million years ago. That would indicate the explosive breakup of a larger parent body. Tests of that hypothesis versus an 'Oort cloud' origin strongly favour the former. Additional supporting evidence includes 'explosion signatures' in asteroid orbital elements, indicating that asteroids had a similar origin; meteorites with anomalously young cosmic ray exposure ages, also showing evidence of shock and rapid heating to the point of partial melting; dark, carbonaceous material deposited on surfaces all over the solar system in a pattern consistent with a single blast wave spreading through the system; and companions or satellites of both asteroids and comets, suggested by recent findings to be abundant, that are difficult to explain other than by means of an explosion. One such exploded parent body was apparently in the immediate vicinity of Mars when it blew up, suggesting that Mars was originally its moon. Evidence for this includes an inner asteroid belt of predominantly S-type ('silicaceous') asteroids; a massive hemispheric crustal dichotomy on Mars; evidence of a major, sudden geographic pole shift; loss of a former thick atmosphere; and excess Xe-129, a massive explosion by-product. The totality of astronomical evidence, when combined with geological evidence, suggests that planetary explosions are a significant under-appreciated factor that helped shape solar system history.
by Tom Van Flandern
Oh, look, some brainless jackass put “callingartbell” in the keywords.
Courtesy of Johns Hopkins University
That tickles.
The Search for Distant Objects in the Solar System Using Spacewatch
Astronomical Journal | volume 133 (2007) | Jeffrey A. Larsen et al
Posted on 03/12/2007 2:38:09 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1799615/posts
[note: that’s 77,000 topics since March! And Blam only did about 20,000 of ‘em]
The Dwarf Planets
by Mike Brown
Caltech
name
average
distance
from sun
(semimajor
axis, AU)estimated size
(km)2004TY364 38.72 540 2002KX14 39.01 560 2002XV93 39.22 430 2003VS2 39.27 610 1999TC36 39.27 440 2001QF298 39.30 490 Orcus
39.34 1100 2003AZ84 39.45 710 Pluto
39.53
2300
Ixion
39.65 980 Huya
39.76 480 2005RN43 41.53 740 1995SM55 41.64 470 2002MS4 41.90 740 2004SB60 41.97 560 2004GV9 42.23 680 2002UX25 42.53 810 Varuna
42.90 780 2002TX300 43.11 800
1996TO66 43.19 540 2003OP32 43.24 650 2003EL61 43.31 2000
Quaoar
43.58 1290 2003QW90 43.65 560 1999CD158 43.69 410 1997CS29 43.87 410 2000CN105 44.65 430 1998WH24 45.56 450 2005FY9 45.66 1600
2004PR107 45.75 520 2003MW12 45.94 740 2002CY248 46.18 410 2002KW14 47.08 510 2002AW197 47.30 940 2002WC19 47.67 410 2003QX113 49.56 450 2003FY128 49.77 430 2001UR163 51.40 620 2002TC302 55.02 710 1999DE9 55.72 490 2004XR190 57.36 540 2000YW134 57.77 430 Eris
67.69 2400
2005RM43 89.73 560 Sedna
486.0 1800
Well, I have been slouching off a bit lately. That happens in the summertime...
Well, he won’t have to worry about that beam frying his brain...
Well, and there were hurricanes and stuff to avoid...
What evidence do you have about Mercury being an escaped satellite of Venus, also the capture theory for the moon has been abandoned by most mainstream astronomers.
Yeah...'that's the ticket.'
But... but... it’s unknown!
So how does anybody know about it?
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