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Originally posted by discl0sur3
In response to a couple of other threads in this forum I did some investigating of my own on this unknown object currently in our Solar System.
This is MORE THAN ONE object...my guess is it's a Brown Dwarf with 4 or 5 orbiting moons/planets.
Originally posted by discl0sur3
reply to post by Phage
I agree and am aware of the "blooming" effect that you speak of. My suggestion to you is to download the last hi-res image of this object from the COR2 camera taken April 22nd (stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...) and compare this to known images of Venus or Mercury or any other planet in our solar system for that matter. This is MORE THAN ONE object...my guess is it's a Brown Dwarf with 4 or 5 orbiting moons/planets.
[edit on 25-4-2010 by discl0sur3]
Special equipment is required to view this area of outer space as the sun would burn out most equipment
Third, the planets/moons orbiting this planet would be much to small to be seen with the average back yard astronomers equipment, although I do have my suspicions that there are many that are aware of this that are keeping their mouths shut.
Originally posted by Ahmose
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by discl0sur3
It's Mercury. The sensors on the heliospheric imager are very sensitive. A bright object causes a "blooming" effect on the sensor making bright objects look large because a group of pixels gets excited by overflow from the brightness. The same effect seen in LASCO images.
The NASA scientist probably didn't bother to actually check what you were talking about because they get swamped with ridiculous inquiries like yours every time a planet appears. They have better things to do.
[edit on 4/25/2010 by Phage]
Phage is right,
I just had stellarium open again,
and mercury it is.
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[edit on 25-4-2010 by Ahmose]
Originally posted by Phage
You're right. It isn't Venus.
It's Mercury and it is also now appearing in SOHO images.
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[edit on 4/25/2010 by Phage]