Earth possibly having a second sun

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In various versions of the Planet X/Nibiru story, it is claimed to be either a brown dwarf or to orbit around one. In the somewhat bizarre post-Velikovsky Saturn scenario, Saturn was supposed to have been a brown dwarf, and Earth was in orbit around it within human memory, in a perpetual 'purple twilight'.

Visibility

Planet X/Nibiru proponents like to claim that brown dwarfs are "invisible" and can be detected only in infra-red light, and this is why no astronomers, amateur or professional, have been able to spot the "incoming" Planet X/Nibiru. The claim is partially true:

brown dwarfs fuse deuterium, which heats them up and everything heated emits infra-red light (and if it's hot enough, visible light too: think of "red-hot iron");
small brown dwarfs may be cold enough to emit mostly infra-red light;
thus, if we consider only light emission, a small, cool brown dwarf will be fainter in the visible spectrum and brighter in the infra-red spectrum.
light sources become fainter with distance, so if a brown dwarf is far away enough, its visible light may be too faint to be detected by the human eye or a telescope, while its infra-red light may be still above the threshold of detection.

That doesn't mean that brown dwarfs are "invisible", though. A brown dwarf is at least the size of Jupiter or larger and will reflect light in the same way. If one was close to our Solar System (or in it, as some claim), it would look like Jupiter at the same distance due to reflected sunlight. A brown dwarf inside the orbit of Jupiter would be as bright as or brighter than Jupiter in the night sky. (And Jupiter is one of the brightest objects in the night sky after the Moon, Venus and the International Space Station.)

More importantly, though, we've launched space telescopes (such as IRAS and WISE) designed explicitly to observe the sky in the infrared spectrum. An object that emitted only infrared radiation should still have been detected by one of these telescopes.

Bugger! Now why didn't I think of that!!

LOL are ya cute?

Maybe I should ask how young you are lol

Well, not so young you're gunna think I'm a runt.

And how old is a runt to you? lol

Fluff on upper lip old...sisters mates wont kiss old. Gotta get yer mate with hairy legs to get the beer old? Zits on the bathroom mirror old....sorry...now that is gross!!

LOL that isn't saying much but pretty funny!

Hahahaha. Yeah. I guess thats a bit vague. I'm 28 me sweet sheila. Kiwi bad boy can't resist messin about. Hahahaha

Ok so there is speculation running around the net that we don't have 2 suns or we do. The people believing that we don't have 2 suns makes excuses that people have lens flares from their cameras when taking pic of the sun.

Now I had a thought we see chemtrails being sprayed on a continuous basis and it's even happening at night now in some places. What if the chemtrails are being sprayed to cover up something in the sky we aren't meant to see? Just a thought I wanted to bring up. Also when I see the chemtrails being sprayed it's usually on days when there is ZERO clouds in the sky.

I'm a little older than you by 11 yrs!

Whats 11 years between solar buddies. Hahahaha

;)

Nah there is only one lucifer.

You as cute as you post?

I'm just me lol. You decide for yourself.

I shall have to stop by and say hello sometime. :)

You can always e-mail me so we can stay in touch and talk about doom and gloom lol.

That's some poor acting lol

funny though ;)

Yes it is :)