Posted on 02/06/2009 9:27:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Nice! I went up to the local observatory about twenty-some years ago, and got to view Saturn through a Celestron C-11 (or maybe it was a C-13, I don’t recall and don’t want to try to look it up). It was obviously ringed, but it was pretty small to the eye. :’)
The image above was enlarged. However through the eyepiece the planet is much clearer, in focus, with much better surface or atmospheric and ring detail visible, as opposed to what the camera captured in that image.
Every object in our solar system has gravity that pulls on every other body. When an object travels through space one can tell by the wobbles in its path when some heavy body is pulling on it from some direction. One can use this information to calculate the mass and location of the unseen heavy body.
This is how planet X was “discovered”. Its location is so far from the sun that it must be cold, and other bodies out that far have been icy objects. (Volatile materials boil off from the inner planets and then get cold trapped by planets out far from the sun where it is colder. (Kind of like your warm breath freezing out on your window in winter.)
It is hard to see this body because it is cold, dark and far away. As to the size of it, they have to guess what it is made of and then use the guessed density to calculate the size. Its not impossible to detect, just too hard for us at the moment.
The last bit in the article about planets falling into the sun or each other is hooey. We might have asteroids hit a planet, or something come from outside our solar system to mess things up, but that is way beyond unlikely. The vast majority of objects with erratic paths crashed into planets and each other long ago so the only ones left now have pretty regular orbits that do not intersect.
More like a person who cannot see well in daylight but has great night vision.
They thought they saw it in 2005: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/29jul_planetx.htm as a freeper posted above . I was wondering if Hubble had been used to look for it yet, and could not find any reliable images. If it had been found then it is likely Hubble would have been used to image it.
Apparently the jury is still out on the whole planet x thing. At http://space.y2u.co.uk/Astronomy_Planet_X.htm there is a good discussion of Planet X. Previous observations were found to be unreliable, and gravitational data was noisy, but more recent data suggests something may be there but not easy to locate precisely.
That’s my point. “wobbles” or something like it would be “indirect” evidence. The article said that “direct or even indirect observations of this body are impossible to date”. Wouldn’t gravitational forces on neighboring bodies constitute “indirect” evidence?
Yes you are right. It would. The article was partly hooey. Especially the last paragraph of it.
Do you know what this would mean from NASA’s SOHO
taken on 3/27/09
http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/data_query_search_movie
SOHO Nasa image can be found at:
http://sohodata.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-b...
Select LASCO C3 and enter start and end dates 2009/03/27
scroll through images until you reach the time stamp 3:18
Sorry . . . I’m a pathetically ignorant layman about such things.
Pretty.
. . . I’m partial to blue . . .
Still quite lost on my eyes and knowledge.
Thanks.
Kinda looks like the object in the photo
Hmmmmm
Very interesting.
Curious.
Thx.
can’t pull up either page- any better link?
Try this youtube link, then follow to the directions to the left to get to the NASA Site for this......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm2kaCJvx6w
wth makes the “wings” - are they rings?
In post #30 you can see the object does look winged.
I enhanced that photo on my computer...
I just think it is kinda odd that in Summerian Culture they have a Winged globe or object Same looking Object) they knew as a traveling planet....
Is it Nibiru? I don’t know, their is so much controversy it is hard to know the truth.....
This is my issue with this....
How sure can we be that the Gov’t would actually let us know they have a unknown planet in their site....
I think within a year, if this planet does exist, we will all be able to see it with the naked eye, IMO that is when the truth will prevail on this Nibiru controversy.
I beleive its a planet of fierce warrior women who can kill you with he blink of an eye ...
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