msn.com: Secret rogue planet may be hiding behind Neptune. May 14, 2012

OH help them ASTRO-mutt-Kenobi you are their only hope!!!!



BTW... my mama always used that phrase on me and it went like this...

"Methinks thou doth protesteth too much..."

I think it's Shakespere.

Yes, it was quite the hilarious April Fool's joke. Doubly so when Volar fell for it and thought it was real.
[link to www.science20.com]

pinned in alphabetical order

sorry

"Other space scientists say Gomes' findings may be a lot of hot air and aren't sure his calculations support his theory."
from the article....

[link to now.msn.com]

Wow so any old jackass can come out and say there is some other planet and all you assholes fall for it. Get a life.

Yip...you silently pull your pants down
and dont flinch with the anal probe....



Last Edited by Lekker on 05/14/2012 06:17 PM

there will be much disease and pestilence

Why does the media have a problem calling a spade a spade? It's a battle star, plain and simple.

'It has already been found and its orbit identified. Google: "Vulcan Revealed"

Its half as big as Jupiter and in a 4969 year orbit around the Sun.

It is now about 444 AU away.'


hmm

same ol bullshit,find something else.

You know man, you get a bad rap around here sometimes and I can't quite figure out why. Maybe it's because you actually know what you are talking about? Perhaps it's that you rain on someone's doom parade?

Great explanation and thanks for being here to clear these misconceptions.

Here's the article :
Secret rogue planet may be hiding behind Neptune
6 hrs ago
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Does Earth have a new friend? An astrophysicist says it's likely that an as-yet undiscovered planet exists on the dark fringes of our solar system, messing with the orbits of celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, just beyond Neptune. Rodney Gomes says the new planet could be anywhere from half to four times the size of Earth and is likely a rogue planet that floated over from another solar system. Other space scientists say Gomes' findings may be a lot of hot air and aren't sure his calculations support his theory. Buzzkills. We already lost Pluto. Stop playing with our hearts. Give us the new guy.

New Planet Found in Our Solar System?

An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of the solar system, according to new research.

Seriously how many of these things are they all going to publish?

It's a conspiracy, forgot to include the bribery payment JUST KIDDING.

Are you serious?! You need to check out these visions/dreams this guy had. He had three visions/dreams of celestial bodies. Its on theappearance.com. check them out under the dreams and visions section.

Status has changed from a rogue planet to a terrorist planet. Try to remain calm.

rofl I have seen it twice and I highly doubt it is banned in the US.

I lost it at the escape unit!

Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.






Brasil-il-il-il-il-il-il!!!!

:)
Ana-Ku Nesu Gub
Or
Ma-A Ti Gub

Dear God!!!! They were right!!!!

Well, if it's next to Uranus, maybe they should call it Urpenis or Urcunt.

Lol

Richard A. Lovett in Timberline Lodge, Oregon
for National Geographic News
Published May 11, 2012

An as yet undiscovered planet might be orbiting at the dark fringes of thesolar system, according to new research.

Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes, the potential unseen planet appears to be making its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

Kuiper belt objects are small icy bodies—including some dwarf planets—that lie beyond the orbit of Neptune.

Once considered the ninth planet in our system, the dwarf planet Pluto, for example, is one of the largest Kuiper belt objects, at about 1,400 miles (2,300 kilometers) wide. Dozens of the other objects are hundreds of miles across, and more are being discovered every year.

(See "Three New 'Plutos'? Possible Dwarf Planets Found.")

What's intriguing, Gomes said, is that, according to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper belt objects—including the remote body known as Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they should be, based on existing solar system models. (Related: "Pluto Neighbor Gets Downsized.")

The objects' unexpected orbits have a few possible explanations, said Gomes, who presented his findings Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

"But I think the easiest one is a planetary-mass solar companion"—a planet that orbits very far out from the sun but that's massive enough to be having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt objects.

Mystery Planet a Captured Rogue?

For the new work, Gomes analyzed the orbits of 92 Kuiper belt objects, then compared his results to computer models of how the bodies should be distributed, with and without an additional planet.

If there's no distant world, Gomes concludes, the models don't produce the highly elongated orbits we see for six of the objects.

How big exactly the planetary body might be isn't clear, but there are a lot of possibilities, Gomes added.

Based on his calculations, Gomes thinks a Neptune-size world, about four times bigger than Earth, orbiting 140 billion miles (225 billion kilometers) away from the sun—about 1,500 times farther than Earth—would do the trick.

Read more at national geographic here: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120511-new-planet-so​lar-system-kuiper-belt-space-science/?source=link_tw20120513n​ews-solarsystem

Snooze alert for Melancholia. The best part was the last twenty seconds. Everything else was such a bore.

So when the MSM finally starts admitting all this, you know we're close to some serious shit.

"Other space scientists say Gomes' findings may be a lot of hot air and aren't sure his calculations support his theory. "