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Beyond Pluto: the hunt for our solar system's new ninth planet
Guardian (UK) ^
| Sunday, June 28, 2020
| Stuart Clark
Posted on 07/26/2020 6:25:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Not A Snowbird
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posted on
07/26/2020 8:54:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Jeez. All this time studying our little solar system and there’s a planet they think they’ve missed?
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posted on
07/26/2020 8:55:54 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: SunkenCiv
That’s what I am thinking plus we know our solar system had many close encounters over the life of it’s existence
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posted on
07/26/2020 9:11:31 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: jmacusa
Here is a picture of it:
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posted on
07/26/2020 9:17:51 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: central_va
Wow. Looks like a lot of meteors crashed into it.
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posted on
07/26/2020 10:31:29 PM PDT
by
jmacusa
(If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
To: dila813
Re: “it was captured from another solar system.”
A new theory is also making the rounds...
A micro-black hole.
SciTechDaily had a story just a few weeks ago:
https://scitechdaily.com/bold-plan-to-determine-if-planet-nine-is-a-primordial-black-hole/
A Harvard astronomer suggested we could easily locate the tiny flares that a micro-black hole would generate in the Oort Cloud.
Stephen Hawking theorized the existence of planet-mass black holes 50 years ago.
To: zeestephen
Don’t think so, if we had one the solar systems that passed near us would have been wreaked. Still possible, but remember that we don’t know if this type of object exists.
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07/26/2020 11:56:55 PM PDT
by
dila813
To: dila813
Re: “if we had one, the solar systems that passed near us would have been wreaked.”
Seems unlikely.
We are talking Earth-level gravitational attraction, or even less.
But - as you point out - “do they exist” is still the most important question of all.
To: Verginius Rufus
Planet X. The first Black Muslim planet?
* * *
Key question: are their actual Lives on that planet? Or mere Matter?
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07/27/2020 4:27:37 AM PDT
by
poconopundit
(Iron fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
To: Forward the Light Brigade
Xenia got clobbered
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posted on
07/27/2020 7:10:49 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
Surprised no one brought this one up:
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posted on
07/27/2020 3:12:23 PM PDT
by
Oatka
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