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Jupiter-sized object lurking at the solar system’s edge, affecting Earth.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 556010:MV8xMjczMDg0XzIwNzgwMTYxXzk4NTYxQThF] from the same article: [i]We may not have to wait that long, Matese said. An object like Tyche could be seen directly by WISE, NASA’s infrared space telescope.[/i] so don't ever count on it to be publicly anounched.. [/quote]
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Found this pretty interesting
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A century of comet data suggests a dark, Jupiter-sized object is lurking at the solar system’s outer edge and hurling chunks of ice and dust toward Earth.
In 1999, Matese and colleague Daniel Whitmire suggested the sun has a hidden companion that boots icy bodies from the Oort Cloud, a spherical haze of comets at the solar system’s fringes, into the inner solar system where we can see them.
Rather than a malevolent death star, a smaller and more benign companion called Tyche (
Nemesis’ good sister in Greek mythology
) could send comets streaming from the Oort Cloud toward Earth
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