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A planet past Pluto? Astronomers redefine the solar system's edge
FoxNews.com ^ | March 26, 2014/

Posted on 03/26/2014 1:03:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Scientists at the Carnegie Carnegie Institution for Science announced Wednesday the discovery of a new cosmic neighbor -- a distant dwarf planet named 2012 VP113 that was found spinning in the depths of space well past Pluto. Its existence suggests there may be another actual planet out there, they said, a rogue giant ten times bigger than Earth orbiting in the distant blackness

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: 2012vp113; asteroid; catastrophism; dwarfplanet; kbo; minorplanet; pinkplanet; xplanets
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To: BenLurkin

“Planet?”

If Pluto can’t have that designation, then NOBODY new gets it.


21 posted on 03/26/2014 1:34:16 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: BenLurkin

The science of what is causing wobbles in Uranus’s orbit has never been solved, for years some have been saying there is an unseen gas giant that has to accounts for these wobbles, dwarf planets and Oort Cloud Objects are just too small for this.


22 posted on 03/26/2014 1:35:05 PM PDT by Trueblackman (As a Conservative, I am proud to be on the Obama's enemy list and on the right side of history..)
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To: NYer

So that’s where the projector is!!!

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328


23 posted on 03/26/2014 1:35:34 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: NYer

Gee, the new planet looks like a big red arrow.


24 posted on 03/26/2014 1:43:50 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ("It is not the color of his skin, ... it is the blackness that fills his soul")
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To: NYer

Some in the scientific community would be much better served if they were up front about how much we don’t know about almost everything. But no one ever got a grant or published a book talking about all the things we don’t know (and may never know).


25 posted on 03/26/2014 1:48:07 PM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: Trueblackman

tiny quibble, the wobble was seen in Neptune; there are those who believe that a short series of observations more than a century old should just be thrown out. IMHO they probably indicate an undiscovered body moving in retrograde or more or less perpendicular to the ecliptic.


26 posted on 03/26/2014 1:52:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: Trueblackman

Wobbles in Uranus? Ewww, stop that!


27 posted on 03/26/2014 1:54:48 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.r)
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To: colorado tanker

Thanks ct. They’ve probably discovered this new one on the way in, it’ll swing round and head back out, and in no time be out beyond both Voyagers. :’)


28 posted on 03/26/2014 2:07:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: BenLurkin
I thought it was "Settled Science" that there is NO rogue planet orbiting in the distant blackness

Um, no. A definive count of objects in our solar system has never been settled science. But nice try.

29 posted on 03/26/2014 2:08:35 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: eCSMaster

If you get close enough it says “Eat at Joes”.


30 posted on 03/26/2014 2:10:25 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought Pluto had been demoted from planet status.


31 posted on 03/26/2014 2:10:35 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Exactly and I think this body also from time to time knocks object out of the Oorit Cloud and sends them hurling into our system as comets.


32 posted on 03/26/2014 2:16:52 PM PDT by Trueblackman (As a Conservative, I am proud to be on the Obama's enemy list and on the right side of history..)
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To: eCSMaster
No, the interstellar crossing signal next to the arrow-

33 posted on 03/26/2014 2:22:16 PM PDT by mikrofon (Planet X-ing)
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To: BenLurkin

Does anybody know how to contact Zecharia Sitchin?


34 posted on 03/26/2014 2:24:41 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: Trueblackman

Are you saying there is a gas giant near.... never mind.


35 posted on 03/26/2014 2:32:40 PM PDT by spudville
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To: Trueblackman

I don’t think there is an Oort cloud.


36 posted on 03/26/2014 2:33:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alreadyposted/index)
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To: Drew68

“A definive count of objects in our solar system has never been settled science. But nice try. “

Perhaps there is a consensus.


37 posted on 03/26/2014 2:35:24 PM PDT by spudville
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To: BenLurkin

Hmmmmmm.... Maybe there are UFO’s and aliens from space. If this is the pink planet may the aliens are all guy.


38 posted on 03/26/2014 2:36:32 PM PDT by Vinylly (?)
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To: BenLurkin

She came from Planet Claire.
I knew she came from there.
She drove a Plymouth Satellite.
She drove it faster than the speed of light.


39 posted on 03/26/2014 2:39:04 PM PDT by sauron ("Truth is hate to those who hate Truth" --unknown)
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To: spudville

No I don’t think it is a gas giant more like a unseen ice covered rocky planet that orbits on a different plane.


40 posted on 03/26/2014 2:41:35 PM PDT by Trueblackman (As a Conservative, I am proud to be on the Obama's enemy list and on the right side of history..)
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