Mystery Planet: Is a Rogue Giant Orbiting Our Sun?

Time ^ | Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 | Michael D. Lemonick

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"What we're really saying," he explains, "is that there's suggestive evidence there might be something out there." And if a new planet exists — something Matese is emphatically not claiming at this point — then the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite should already have an image of it stored somewhere in its enormous database.

How suggestive the evidence actually is, though, depends on whom you ask. If you ask Ned Wright, a UCLA astrophysicist and WISE principal investigator, he'll tell you, "It's really kind of flimsy. It's there, but they don't have super data."

So while the latest version of Planet X could certainly exist in theory, it's way too early to start rewriting the textbooks. The evidence isn't even strong enough to have triggered an active search for Tyche; it's only because WISE happens to be surveying the heavens anyway that it could be found at all. If Tyche really is out there, says Wright, "we might be able to tell you something in a year or two."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2049641,00.html#ixzz1EAlUqgvM

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Joya.

mystic ecologist David Sereda about his latest research on the Earth's pole shift and why the sunrise has been early

It's been early for him because "mystic ecologist" is code for "glaucoma patient with medical marijuana prescription".

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