Posted on 02/14/2011 1:30:02 PM PST by kronos77
Scientists believe they may have found a new planet in the far reaches of the solar system, up to four times the mass of Jupiter.
Its orbit would be thousands of times further from the Sun than the Earth's - which could explain why it has so far remained undiscovered.
Data which could prove the existence of Tyche, a gas giant in the outer Oort Cloud, is set to be released later this year - although some believe proof has already been garnered by Nasa with its pace telescope, Wise, and is waiting to be pored over.
A new world? Astronomers believe a huge gas giant may be within the remote Oort Cloud region
Prof Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette believes the data may prove Tyche's existence within two years.
He told the Independent: 'If it does, [fellow astrophysicist Prof John Matese] and I will be doing cartwheels. And that's not easy at our age.'
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He added he believes it will mainly be made of hydrogen and helium, with an atmosphere like Jupiter's, with spots and rings and clouds, adding: 'You'd also expect it to have moons. All the outer planets have them.'
He believes the planet is so huge, it will ahve a raised temperature left from its formation that will make it far higher than others, such as Pluto, at -73C, as 'it takes an object this size a long time to cool off'.
Isolated: The Oort Cloud, where Tyche is believed to be, is a sphere with a radius of one light year
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The Long Lost Planet X?.................
In before that annoying Disney song.
A gas giant bigger than Obama? The mind boggles.
Niburu?
Bush’s fault. It’s warmer than the surrounding space because of SUVs.
I call dibs on any hot chicks from the planet Tyche.
It would have to be a brown dwarf................or is that racist?................
Do scientists usually announce things that they might be about to discover? That could take a lot of ink and electrons.
So how did the astrologists base horoscopes founded on the notion that the relative positions of celestial bodies can explain or predict fate, personality, human affairs, and other earthly matters without knowing about this?
Or other numberous celestial bodies, unknown to us still?;)
Moochelle must be the butt of the joke in here somehow.
Niburu?
............Gulp!
No, obama is too tall, so you are OK. Now sharpton?
The existance of the hypothetical and unobserved “Oort cloud” is very important to a certain worldview.
Without it, short period comets cannot be explained.
Notice, though, how the article is written, with the Oort cloud assumed as a fact.
The Annunaki have been discovered.
Planet Kolob ping!
Global warming?
Beat me to it.
Just another one of those things that makes you go “huh!...what da hell?”
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