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The Original Solar SystemUsing a Titius-Bode law for planetary spacing in its simplest form (where each planet has double the period of the previous one), we infer the existence of twelve original major planets, of which half remain today. Two short-lived gas giant planets may be responsible for the "late heavy bombardment" episode in the early solar system, and for building up the mass of Jupiter... Evolution of the planets would typically proceed via tides and drag toward the maximum-stability Titius-Bode-Law configuration, wherein each planet has a circular, co-planar orbit with double the orbital period of the next planet in. Once that was achieved, further orbital evolution would cease. All the major features of the planetary system can apparently be derived from the process just outlined, although it is different in important ways from the standard solar nebula picture.
by Tom Van Flandern
Meta Research Bulletin, Vol. 6 p. 17
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Bush’s fault.
Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm,
Researchers Say
SPACE dot COM | 18 March 2002 ,posted: 03:00 pm ET | By Leonard David, Senior Space Writer
Posted on 03/25/2002 5:42:10 PM EST by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/653287/posts
Neptune Might Have Captured Triton
Space.com on Yahoo | 5/10/06 | Sara Goudarzi
Posted on 05/10/2006 3:31:09 PM EDT by NormsRevenge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1630007/posts
Mass limit on Nemesis
Bull. Astr. Soc. India | after 10 February 2005 | Varun Bhalerao and M.N. Vahia
Posted on 08/04/2006 12:24:16 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1677507/posts
Giant Planets ‘Formed In Hundreds Of Years’
Ananova | 11-28-2002
Posted on 11/28/2002 7:41:17 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/797641/posts
Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on Stars
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | July 24, 2006 | Whitney Clavin
Posted on 07/31/2006 1:04:39 AM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1674914/posts
Fast-Spinning Star on Verge of Breaking Apart
space.com | 09/25/06 | Jeanna Bryner
Posted on 09/25/2006 10:10:05 PM EDT by KevinDavis
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1708275/posts
Astronomers poised to apply novel way to look for comets beyond Neptune
EurekAlert | 7-Jan-2003 | Anne Stark
Posted on 11/08/2005 1:41:04 AM EST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1517866/posts
here’s a link to an old-style topic; the slowing of the deep-space probes was probably best explained as a consequence of a venting of something on the craft, I forget the details, please resort to a web search for more.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b038c692f17.htm
Great. Now even undocumented planets are trying to get into America.
Maybe the debris is whats left of this?Kolob?
77.2 AU? Let’s send Congress to investigate.
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
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
But... but... it’s unknown!
So how does anybody know about it?
Rove, you magnificent Bastard!
Or did that end with the discovery of Neptune?
