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Originally posted by neformore Quite simply iIf it had happened before, we wouldn't be here to talk about it.
Originally posted by tefstar-x
reply to post by ironjelloThey do, have proof that there is an "extra
planet" or some odd planet beyond our solar system that appears to be
getting closer.
But obviously no one knows if all these predictions will
actually happen. No one is telling anyone to believe it, altough i do have to
say that if these predictions are true, 2012 is only 5 years away..and
there sure isn't any signs that the world will be ending any time soon.
Is this thing gonna hit us?
NASA said it was a hoax on the internet.
Originally posted by Mogget
Is this thing gonna hit us?
This "thing" doesn't exist, so I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. If a large planet had a 3600 year orbit that took it through the asteroid belt, it would cause absolute havoc. There would be ample evidence of its last passage through the inner Solar System, due to gravitational perturbations. The fact that no such evidence exists basically lays this ridiculous myth to rest.
Originally posted by goodboy447
NASA said it was a hoax on the internet.
"An estimated $300-million mission, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or "Wise," has been in the planning stages for the past eight years. It is scheduled to launch into an Earth orbit in late 2009. It will spend seven months collecting data.
Such extensive sky coverage means the mission will find and catalogue all sorts of celestial eccentrics. These may include brown dwarfs, or failed stars, that are closer to Earth than Proxima Centauri, the nearest star other than our sun. Brown dwarfs are balls of gas that begin life like stars but lack the mass to ignite their internal fires and light up like normal stars. They do, however, produce warm infrared glows that Wise will be able to see.
"Brown dwarfs are lurking all around us," said Dr. Peter Eisenhardt, project scientist for the mission at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We believe there are more brown dwarfs than stars in the nearby universe, but we haven't found many of them because they are too faint in visible light."
Wright, Eisenhardt and other scientists recently identified brown dwarfs using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope. Wise will vastly expand the search, uncovering those brown dwarfs closest to Earth that might make ideal targets for future planet-hunting missions. Recent Spitzer findings support the notion that planets might orbit brown dwarfs."
Originally posted by Mogget
Please stop associating NASA with ridiculous conspiracy theories.