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The hunt for Planet Nine reveals some strange, far-out objects
Los Angeles Times ^
| 2 Sept, 2016
| Amina Khan
Posted on 09/04/2016 12:00:50 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Astronomers hunting for Planet Nine have found some 50 new objects lying beyond the orbit of Neptune including a few that may help them track down this elusive, distant world.
The new discoveries, described in a paper accepted to the Astronomical Journal, mark another step toward finding this mysterious giant planet, which could help rewrite our understanding of our own solar system.
In 2014, astronomers Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science and Chadwick Trujillo of Northern Arizona University announced that theyd found an object with the most distant orbit ever observed in the solar system a possible dwarf planet called 2012 VP113 that lay far beyond Pluto.
2012 VP113 (nicknamed Biden) was a baffling object, because its orbit placed it in what was thought to be a no mans land between the Kuiper belt (the icy ring of distant debris whose largest member is Pluto) and the Oort cloud, a far-out, spherical shell of debris that scientists think surrounds the solar system..............
The scientists noticed something else strange: 2012 VP113 and Sedna both seemed to be making their closest approach to the sun at similar angles. This could mean that something big, far out in the darkness, was tugging on both their orbits in the same way.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: planet9; xplanets
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To: MtnClimber
They talk about planet 9 like there is good evidence it exists. I think there is only slight evidence it exists.
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:01:58 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
strange, far-out objects It's evident why they named this object "Biden".
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:03:09 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(KAINE-Voting For Hillary Will Put American Women On Par With Women In Iraq, Afghanistan = Sharia Law)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:11:39 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: MtnClimber
Who gets to decide what is a planet? I can’t imagine anyone with that authority.
I still think Pluto is one.
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:16:09 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: MtnClimber
>>
They talk about planet 9 like there is good evidence it exists. I think there is only slight evidence it exists. <<
There is excellent evidence that it is exists, as we just sent a probe to visit it last year. It's called Pluto. It's still a planet whether the IAU wants to admit that or not.
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:20:38 PM PDT
by
BillyBoy
(Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
To: MtnClimber
Does it grope small moons?
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:23:27 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: MtnClimber
Colonel Edwards: "Why is it so important that you want to contact the governments of our earth?"
Eros: "Because of death. Because all you of Earth are idiots!"
(Oh...you said
planet nine...)
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:29:23 PM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Trump is to the political class what Uber is to taxicab companies)
To: MtnClimber
No gravity well, no reflecting the sun’s light... sounds bogus to me.
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:29:40 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(Rest in peace, Gene Wilder. Thank you for the laughs.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:30:22 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
To: 2ndDivisionVet
“Does it grope small moons?”
The same way Bill Clinton does!
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:35:09 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: wastedyears
“sounds bogus to me.”
Hey! Leave me out of it!
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:36:30 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: MtnClimber
a possible dwarf planet called 2012 VP113 that lay far beyond Pluto.
You'd think they could come up with a better name for a planet than 2012 VP113.......I think "Mickey" would be much more appropriate and easier to remember.
But since it's a "dwarf" planet, how about "Grumpy"? Or I could come up with six other suggestions........
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:41:35 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(If only Hillary had married OJ instead......)
To: Zeneta
Poor Pluto. It never got a victory lap after being discovered and declared a planet back in 1930.
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:46:21 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: BradyLS
They,
“Blinded Me With Science”
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posted on
09/04/2016 12:56:13 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
To: COBOL2Java
Plan Nine came from Planet Nine! It all makes sense now!
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posted on
09/04/2016 1:30:57 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
To: MtnClimber
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posted on
09/04/2016 1:48:56 PM PDT
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
09/04/2016 2:02:34 PM PDT
by
NYer
(Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Does it grope small moons?
The same way Bill Clinton does!
... but only in half-phase.
To: BradyLS
How'd yah like to be "Uranus"?
cue snickers of 6th grade boys.
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posted on
09/04/2016 3:12:43 PM PDT
by
j.argese
(/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
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