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(DO YOU EVEN REALIZE!!! .. The frikin DENSITY of a dwarf? .. why am I wasteing time on you
Fifth. A 3,600 year old orbit huh? .. Amazing. Human history is traced back hundreds of thousands of years. Civilization is recorded at around 6,000 years, humans for thousands of years before that where primal nomadic species. No evidence of giant lizards.
PS. i just went back and read the rest of your "rant"......
.....youre an idiot....PERIOD
Originally posted by Anomic of Nihilism
Watch the Goggle Video Link I posted on the last page called THE GREAT YEAR.
has some FAIRLY good evidence for the SUPPOSED companion star to our system.
Not nesseceraly. Try to get hold of a documentary called "THE GREAT YEAR".
Google Video Link |
Originally posted by IeatALIENS
Even if one were found in our solar system, it would be so far removed from Earth, it would have almost no effect. Then, even if it were found to be on a collision path with Earth, it would be coming in from so far out of our solar system, it would never approach anything near a 2012 date.
Originally posted by ChocoTaco369
Originally posted by IeatALIENS
Even if one were found in our solar system, it would be so far removed from Earth, it would have almost no effect. Then, even if it were found to be on a collision path with Earth, it would be coming in from so far out of our solar system, it would never approach anything near a 2012 date.
That's not true. Read my post above. If the brown dwarf is moving at nearly the same speed as our sun, 486,000 miles per hour, through the galactic medium, it has the potential to travel 25.5 billion miles in the next 6 years. That is nearly 53 times further away than Jupiter is from Earth. Surely if it was that much further away in the dark depths of space, we wouldn't be able to see it for some time. We wouldn't be able to see it until it was a year or two away from us, depending on how large it is. We'll just have to wait and see.
This thing, if it exists, may be rotating towards us many times faster than a planet rotates around the sun. It may be beaming toward us at amazing speeds similar to the sun spinning around the galactic spiral arm.
[edit on 1-2-2007 by ChocoTaco369]
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Picking up moons. Not Possible.
Originally posted by IeatALIENS
I'm sorry, but that isn't true.
If a Brown Dwarf were orbiting our sun, it's speed in relation to the solar system would not be anything near 486,000 miles an hour.
You are mistaking the speed of expansion as our Sun moves through the Galactic Plane, with the speed of a body orbiting within the system of the Sun. They are 2 different velocities.
In other words:
Say I am the Sun.
Replace 60 miles per hour with 486,000 miles an hour.
I stand in the bed of my friend's truck.
He drives at 60 miles per hour. Therefore, I am moving at 60 miles per hour.
I am the Sun, and I am moving across the galactic plane at 60 miles per hour.
In my one hand, I have a Brown Dwarf. Just by being a part of my system, (being in my hand), it is moving at 60 miles per hour also.
I am spinning around, imitating the rotation of the Brown Dwarf around the Sun.
Although, the Brown Dwarf is moving through the Galactic Plane at 60 miles per hour, it is NOT rotating around the Sun (me) at 60 miles per hour, (because I would throw up).
Back to reality: if a Brown Dwarf were orbiting our Sun at 486,000 miles per hour, it would be a VERY WELL-KNOWN body in our solar system. Because it would be around an awful lot.
That is almost 12 million miles a day. 4 Billion miles a year.
To put this in better perspective, it takes Pluto 247.7 Earth years to orbit the Sun, with an orbit of roughly 7,349,297,800 miles.
That means that although Pluto is moving through the Galactic Plane, with our Sun, at roughly 486,000 per hour, it is actually orbiting the Sun at about 29,670,156.64 miles per year, or
81,288 miles per day, or
3,387 miles per hour.
The Earth orbits the Sun at 67,000 miles per hour. I give that data because the farther an object is away from the Sun, the slower it is orbiting.
So, no. A Brown Dwarf, orbiting the Sun from an orbit even farther out in space, (several times if any), will not be orbiting our Sun at 486,000 miles per hour, even though it may be moving through space at that speed.
And, no, it would not be here any time soon, even if we found it tomorrow.
[edit on 1-2-2007 by IeatALIENS]