The time is right to disprove Planet X

Southern sky to be mapped for first time

The above article explains the current efforts to begin mapping the southern skys using the 268-Megapixel SkyMapper telescope, hopefully when this is all done and dusted we can hear less of this Planet-X and we can all come up with a better doomsday scenario?

No, because everyone knows that the people mapping the sky are in on it, and they'll just blank out planet X.

What's more interesting is that this is the first time anyone is mapping the Southern Sky? And it's almost 2009?

What I would really like to see is the discovery of a large planet beyond the Kuiper Belt. The orbits of many scattered disk objects have unusually high inclinations and eccentricities, and there is growing evidence that these are due to the gravitational perturbations of a relatively massive object (possibly as massive as Earth) at a considerable distance from the Sun (maybe ~100AUs).

Of course, this would be the real Planet X, and has nothing to do with the entirely mythical and non existent Nibiru.


[edit on 16-12-2008 by Mogget]

[edit on 16-12-2008 by Mogget]

Originally posted by DocEmrick
What's more interesting is that this is the first time anyone is mapping the Southern Sky? And it's almost 2009?

No, it's certainly not the first time in general, perhaps the first time using a digital camera though. SERC-J mapped the southern sky starting around 1975. You can access all the photographic plates in digitized form from that survey here:
archive.stsci.edu...
SERC-J was combined into POSS on that page to make an all-sky atlas of images taken starting around 1958 for the northern sky, and 1975 for the southern sky. The title of this article is extremely misleading.

The first digital map of the sky south of the equator...

The key word there is digital, apparently the author didn't understand that when she wrote the title.

[edit on 16-12-2008 by ngchunter]