STEREO Hunts for Remains of an Ancient Planet near Earth

NASA ^ | Apr. 9, 2009 | Dr. Tony Phillips

[decimon]

Bump and grind ping.

[cripplecreek]

Interesting but I’m not sure taxpayers should be funding this one. I’m all for space exploration but I just fail to see the point in this one.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I remember reading all of Zecharia Sitchin’s books. I did it for their entertainment value. Hmmmm.

[martin_fierro]

"The name of the planet is Theia," says Mike Kaiser, STEREO project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "It's a hypothetical world...."

It's Theia-rhetical.

[silverleaf]

aka, nibiru? Planet X? etc etc etc

conming back into our solar system...sometime
2012?

[silverleaf]

to see if it’s coming back
... or at least if a big asteroid and accompanying debris field is coming back

[cripplecreek]

Asteroids within the Sun-Earth Lagrange points should be in stable orbits with reason to believe that they would be doing anything other than leading or following us in orbit.

[Little Pig]

IIRC, the STEREO probe is supposed to orbit the sun at one of the LaGrange points anyway, to study the sun without interference from the Earth. This is just adding extra mission objectives for the probe as it positions itself for its main mission.

[cripplecreek]

Well the sun does affect us so I guess the cost of that offsets the cost of looking proving the impact theory.

Thanks for pointing that out.

[silverleaf]

http://www.december212012.com/articles/PlanetX_Nibiru/NASA_AND_PLANET_X.htm

If it is planet X or the remains of it or a body associated with it, the orbit is elliptical and orbital plane is under our earth, an area of space we have not surveilled until fairly recently

[BenLurkin]

We may be looking for Theiasteroids in the Lagrange points but what we find might be something even more interesting.

[decimon]

We may be looking for Theiasteroids in the Lagrange points but what we find might be something even more interesting.

Isn't La Grange where ZZ Top formed?

[BenLurkin]

Lotta nice girls out there.

[Waco]

Stitchin covered this pretty good.

[silverleaf]

The Vatican is looking

http://www.maya12-21-2012.com/bell-interview-with-malachi.html

This piqued my interest

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/vatican_observe_000716.html

“The VATT, which serves as a technology test-bed for a much bigger binocular telescope being built on Mount Graham, is used to study stellar evolution, galaxy structure, main-belt asteroids and large, comet-like objects in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune.”

[decimon]

Lotta nice girls out there.

At L2 they're cool, at L1 they're hot.

[cripplecreek]

Rumour spreadin’ a-’round in that Texas town
‘bout that shack outside La Grange
and you know what I’m talkin’ about.
Just let me know if you wanna go
to that home out on the range.
They gotta lotta nice girls ah.

Have mercy.
A haw, haw, haw, haw, a haw.
A haw, haw, haw.

Well, I hear it’s fine if you got the time
and the ten to get yourself in.
A hmm, hmm.
And I hear it’s tight most ev’ry night,
but now I might be mistaken.
hmm, hmm, hmm.

Ah have mercy.

[stefanbatory]

actually, its name was Maldek and it was located where the Asteroid Belt is currently between Jupiter and Mars...

People need to study their history...jeeeesh /sarc

[SunkenCiv]

"The name of the planet is Theia," says Mike Kaiser, STEREO project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center. "It's a hypothetical world. We've never actually seen it, but some researchers believe it existed 4.5 billion years ago—and that it collided with Earth to form the Moon."

Thanks decimon.

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