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The idea of a new planet being discovered in our Solar System is pretty exciting. Even more so because of the many theories about "planet-x" or "Nibiru" being associated with space aliens and the doomsday prophecies of 2012.
Scientists at places like NASA and famous observatories have deflected inquiries about the discovery for a few years now, mainly because they feared being associated with these "fringe" theories. But like it or not -- it has happened. Well... according to a team of Spanish artronomers who call themselves the StarViewer Team.
The group made the rounds of all the news web sites in the past two weeks, claiming they discovered something very significant. It's almost twice the size of Jupiter and just beyond our furthest planetoid, Pluto. Although it's not a planet, it appears to have planets or large satellites encircling it. It's what astronomers call a "brown dwarf star" and its official name is "G1.9".
You might well ask why astronomers have never detected this object before. In fact they did. G1.9 was first identified as a "supernova remnant" in 1984 by Dave Green of the University of Cambridge and later studied in greater detail with NRAO's Very Large Array radio telescope in 1985. Because it was unusually small for a supernova it was thought to be young -- less than about 1000 years old.
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It's on the other side of Pluto?
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by lordtyp0
It's on the other side of Pluto?
You seem to be rather sure of an unpopular opinion. I'm interested
why do you think this is true?
This is old news.
[edit on 2-1-2010 by randyvs]
Originally posted by Molech
I'm intrigued to know what this would explain about our 'his-story' as you put it? And what exactly would it explain about these 'happenings' in our galaxy?
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by lordtyp0
It's on the other side of Pluto?
You seem to be rather sure of an unpopular opinion. I'm interested
why do you think this is true?
This is old news.
[edit on 2-1-2010 by randyvs]
Originally posted by Molech
I'm intrigued to know what this would explain about our 'his-story' as you put it? And what exactly would it explain about these 'happenings' in our galaxy?
As half of all stars, as you say, are binary systems; then that is still a 1 in 2 chance we have only one sun.
All our theories about gravity and the behaviour of stellar bodies is based on observations of our own galaxy and the fact we have one sun. These theories can be accurately applied to other observable galaxies, both singular and binary. This wouldn't be the case if we had missed the mass of a brown star out of these calculations!
Sorry, but no planet x, unless it's in one of the earth's Lagrange points (story for another day), but keep watching the skies, you might see a cloud or two!