Digger Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-21/planet-nine-new-giant-planet-may-lurk-beyond-pluto/7103838 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 We have discovered hundreds of exoplanets and this one has been lurking the whole time? I thought the subject of this thread was Plan 9 from outer space. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Nothing new about #9' http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NwzozflCQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karloff Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 We have discovered hundreds of exoplanets and this one has been lurking the whole time? I thought the subject of this thread was Plan 9 from outer space. :) "future events such as these will affect you in the future" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cody78 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The Solar System went downhill after Pluto was demoted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Wonderful. Odd name, odd number ;) I suppose they will eventually rename it IAW the Greek Myths precedent. Something like Asteria or Crius (Titans) maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The Nibiru! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 William Pickering and Percival Lowell... Poor guys. They were considered as idiots, because of their speculations about the existence of a trans-Neptunian planet - said to be based on wrong calculations. Now, we are back to it again. Gravitational anomalies in our solar system are being explained with the possible existence of another planet within. Lowell exhausted Himself to death in the desperate search for this planet. Bence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryUK Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Don't tell Donald Trump. He'll want all the Muslims sent there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badbluesplayer Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Darn kids these days with their new planets. We didn't even have any new planets. All we had was a dented globe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pesh Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 I love all this science-y stuff; we're looking at images of the universe all the time, but then we keep discovering new planets in our own galactic backyard. And this is all so relatively close by. Makes you feel wonderfully insignificant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Darn kids these days with their new planets. We didn't even have any new planets. All we had was a dented globe. Hey, Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. ;) Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 [yup quote name=cody78' timestamp='1453354161' post='1732711] The Solar System went downhill after Pluto was demoted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stein Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 As far as I am concerned, Pluto IS still the ninth planet. I have never accepted the downgrade. So then, when we are able to discover or learn if planets 10 and 11 are planets or asteroids or whatever, then we can have a good count. By the time they do THAT, then they might be in a position to determine if this gas giant is actually there, or the gravuty is from another group of smaller stuff. Ya know. Scientific and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 William Pickering and Percival Lowell... Poor guys. They were considered as idiots, because of their speculations about the existence of a trans-Neptunian planet - said to be based on wrong calculations. Now, we are back to it again. Gravitational anomalies in our solar system are being explained with the possible existence of another planet within. Lowell exhausted Himself to death in the desperate search for this planet. Bence. Wasn't Lowell the guy who thought he saw canals on Mars and started the whole Martian craze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btoth76 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Wasn't Lowell the guy who thought he saw canals on Mars and started the whole Martian craze? From Wikipedia: "Lowell's influence on science fiction remains strong. The canals figure prominently in Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein (1949) and The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury (1950). The canals, and even Lowell's mausoleum, heavily influence The Gods of Mars (1918) by Edgar Rice Burroughs as well as all other books in the Barsoom series." Cheers... Bence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zigzag Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Darn kids these days with their new planets. We didn't even have any new planets. All we had was a dented globe. ... and we liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful-evans Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 Hey, Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. ;) Cheers... Bence D'ya think maybe Clyde pyssed somebody off at the International Astronomical Union? At least its rock. Some of these gas giants are just a lot of hot air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 ... and we liked it. and it didn't spin, you had to roll it on the floor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaxson50 Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 1453370070[/url]' post='1732747']Don't tell Donald Trump. He'll want all the Muslims sent there. You say that like its a bad thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skilsaw Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The combined wit and wisdom of this forum is amazing. I learn a lot here. Maybe if I'm a member for 10 years and send in all the box tops from the gibsons I buy, the Gibson University will give me a Phd. That would look cool on my wall. Up there beside my Les Paul and the picture of Planet 9. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capmaster Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 D'ya think maybe Clyde pyssed somebody off at the International Astronomical Union? At least its rock. Some of these gas giants are just a lot of hot air. Not exactly air, and also not exactly hot, or they wouldn't exist at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pin Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 The pertubations of Neptune's orbit were never adequately explained by Pluto (too small a mass) and even the many planetoids since don't really add up. This puzzle is compounded all the more by the distorted elliptical orbits of all the outer planetoids. There must surely be something acting to distort those orbits in the way that is manifested. So Planet X is back on the scene and the hunt is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveFord Posted January 21, 2016 Share Posted January 21, 2016 What the hell did these snot nosed punks do to Pluto? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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