[Beowulf9]

Okay. I mostly put this up here for the obvious grammatical error...

just incredible!

[Sequoyah101]

Nobody prrrroof reads anymore.

I have seen some of the most terrible senseless headlines and sentences lately I have ever seen.

[bolobaby]

I did wrote awesomes articles for high school paper of news.

[Paladin2]

Freekin’ Rocket Scientists......

[choctaw man]

Joe Tex - Ain’t Gonna Bump No More {With No Big Fat Woman} (1977)

[sparklite2]

I wonder if this is an extension of the theory that Jupiter was once a “hot jupiter” which is common in other systems, and migrated out to the orbit it is in now. Maybe the migration disturbed the trajectory of another planet to expel it from the system, flipped Uranus on its side, and cleaned up Earth’s orbit of debris.

[Steely Tom]

Voted out of the solar system.

[doorgunner69]

Niven and Pournelle’s “Lucifers Hammer” had the idea of a dark giant way out there altering comet paths. Spooky, but along the lines of a giant being tossed out from early orbit.

[Hieronymus]

The error was the reason I clicked, and the comments did not disappoint.

[Disambiguator]

Soooo, the solar system is just a big, huge mosh pit after all.

[Bulwinkle]

It happened! Brian Williams was there, he saw it happen!

[puppypusher]

So if there was another her gas giant in our solar system and it got ejected by Jupiter.Where did it go?It should still be in the vicinity of the solar system.

If it’s a gas giant it shouldn’t be hard to find.

[pgyanke]

[Candor7]

This would likely be the planet Nibiru which has its roots allegedly in Mesopotamian mythology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zecharia_Sitchin

[amorphous]

OH CHIT, could this be the start of an announcement to the public that Nemesis/planet X actually exists?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Ignoring the delicious headline, just what happens when two gas balls collide?

[Verginius Rufus]

I guess we could call it Quintus until we find out what its real name is.

Obviously NASA needs a massive infusion of money to launch a search for the missing planet. When we find it, of course, then the question arises--how do we send it reparations, and who pays?

I vote for the country which had the earliest astronomers. Not sure if that would be Iraq, Egypt, India, or China.

[Dr.Deth]

Later for bumped.

[Ken H]

I, for one, am glad Jupiter won.

[roadcat]

was first proposed in 2011

I seem to recall reading of this theory many times, decades ago from various persons. I think one was Velikosky, Russian guy, saying two planets collided and caused problems on Earth. Debris field is the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. All these guys were laughed at.

[Diamond]

Bumped to the top