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Planet Projected at Solar System's Edge
Feb. 28, 2008
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The researchers at Kobe University in western Japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was only a matter of time before the mysterious "Planet X" was found.
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
you can't 'pick' Jupiter and Saturn out of the sky without knowing where they are or following directions
Originally posted by ArMaP
Just to clarify things a little, does anybody know from where came the name "planet X" and to what it was applied?
Duck Dodgers first appeared in the 1953 cartoon short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, directed by Chuck Jones. Jones created a spoof of the popular Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Flash Gordon science fiction serials of the 1930s, casting the brash, egomaniacal Daffy Duck as the hero of the story. The cartoon is widely praised as one of the greatest and funniest Warner Bros. cartoons of all time. As of 2003 it is available in the DVD compilation Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1.
Plot
The plot of the cartoon involves Duck Dodgers' search for the rare element Illudium Phosdex (spelled fosdex in the DVD subtitles), "the shaving cream atom". In the future, the only remaining supply of the element is on the mysterious "Planet X." After leaving Earth (after accidentally putting their rocket ship in reverse and burying them in the launch pad), Dodgers diagrams a ridiculously complex path for reaching the planet, including three-dimensional cardinal directions such as "due up" and "south by downeast." Porky Pig, playing the role of the "Eager Young Space Cadet," suggests instead following a path leading from Planet A to Planets B, C, D, and so on. Dodgers scoffs at the cadet's plan, comes up with an identical one and marvels at his own genius.
Just after Dodgers has claimed Planet X in the name of the Earth, Marvin Martian lands on the same planet (in a ship called the "Martian Maggot") and claims it in the name of Mars. The stage is set for a battle of wits (or lack thereof) between the two cartoon stars.
Percival Lowell, most well known as a proponent for canals on Mars, built a private observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell called his hypothetical planet Planet X, and performed several searches for it, without success. Lowell's first search for Planet X came to an end in 1909, but in 1913 he started a second search, with a new prediction of Planet X: epoch 1850-01-01, mean long 11.67 deg, perih. long 186, eccentricity 0.228, mean dist 47.5 a.u. long arc node 110.99 deg, inclination 7.30 deg, mass 1/21000 solar masses. Lowell and others searched in vain for this Planet X in 1913-1915. In 1915, Lowell published his theoretical results of Planet X. It is ironic that this very same year, 1915, two faint images of Pluto was recorded at Lowell observatory, although they were never recognized as such until after the discovery of Pluto (1930).
In astronomy, Planet X is a large hypothetical planet beyond Neptune. It was postulated to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, especially those of Uranus and Neptune. Those discrepancies were mostly resolved by measurements made in the 1980s.[1]
The "X" in the name represents an unknown and is pronounced as the letter, as opposed to the Roman numeral for ten. At the time of its conception there were eight known planets in the solar system; its existence, first as a ninth planet, and then from 1930 until its demise as a tenth. Although Pluto was discovered as a result of the search for Planet X, it is not considered Planet X. Neither is Eris, even though it was at one point considered for reclassification as a planet under a proposal outlined by the International Astronomical Union (see 2006 redefinition of planet).
In popular culture, "Planet X" has become a stand-in term for an undiscovered planet in the solar system.
In the 1980s and 1990s, astronomer Robert Sutton Harrington of the US Naval Observatory, who had first calculated that Pluto was too small to have perturbed the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, led a search to determine the real cause of the planets' apparently irregular orbits.[3] He calculated that any Planet X would be at roughly three times the distance from the sun of Neptune's orbit, highly elliptical, and far below the ecliptic (the planet's orbit would be at roughly a 90-degree angle from the orbit plane of the other known planets).[4] This hypothesis was met with a mixed reception. Noted Planet X skeptic Brian Marsden of Harvard University's Minor Planet Center has pointed out that these discrepancies are a hundred times smaller than those noticed by Adams and Le Verrier, and could easily be due to observational error.
Originally posted by scobro
Hi.
If there is any truth at all to this Planet X theory,then it is certainly something to worry about.
What is the "official" stance on this subject?
Originally posted by rcwj75
One last thing...EVERY amature astronomer around the globe would be fixated on this cluster/planet if it really was that big and that close....
Originally posted by rjmelter
www.rasnz.org.nz...
This is the planet I was talking about. Is this not the planet they were searching for?
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by NewWorldOver
There is no need for the telescopes to be in the south pole to see a celestial body in the sky over the south pole, unless that celestial object is very, very close to Earth.
As you can see in this crude attempt at showing it, someone far away from the poles can see the sky above them without any problem.
And I think that from all those millions of people that live in southern hemisphere there must be some amateur astronomer.
Originally posted by NewWorldOver
I don't think anybody will believe planet x until they see it with their own eyes. At that point, it's obviously going to be too late.
Project Camelot has just returned from Italy and Norway. In Italy we met with Luca Scantamburlo, who has extensively documented Cristoforo Barbato's contacts with a Jesuit insider in the Vatican (we had been unable to meet with Barbato himself). The topic of our interview was the 'Jesuit Footage' of Planet X, a leaked two minute film clip of a large unknown planet taken from a classified space probe named Siloe.