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Originally posted by DJW001
reply to post by spaz580
NASA calls it a comet so not to scare the sheep, they disclose that it is coming, but not the size.
NASA calls it a comet because that's what it is. A "brown dwarf" is a body much larger and more massive than Jupiter. Jupiter can be seen with the naked eye, and it is much more distant now than comet C2010X-1. Have you not been following these threads at all?
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by SheopleNation
No it doesn't. One is a planet, and the other is a brown dwarf.
Can you define the difference please?
Brown dwarfs are like gas giant planets, only more massive. Another gas giant anywhere near the orbit of Saturn would be plainly visible in the night sky, as would a brown dwarf (not to mention that the orbits of all the planets it passed would get all screwed up).
Under the spectrum of the Sun, a brown dwarf would have a bond albedo similar to that of Jupiter and Neptune (Fig. 9). It would shine with reflected light from the Sun just like Jupiter does.
iopscience.iop.org...
edit on 8/26/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by boncho
reply to post by Angelicdefender2012
You don't even have to zoom. To give you an idea how close this monster planet is to us....
I looked outside, it wasn't there.
Now if you go watch the movie Independence Day you can see aliens invading the world....
Originally posted by domtron
planetX,Nibiru,Herculobus or Tyche. whatever you want to call it .. it is there..
we can discuss the theory of how in 1925 science believed there was a large body that played tug of war with the planets and of this system and their perspective rotations around the sun.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by SheopleNation
So there is no difference really. It's a matter of mass, both gas giants and brown dwarfs are balls of gas.
A brown dwarf only emits infrared, true. So, if a brown dwarf is far from any star it can only be detected by the light it emits. However, if it is near a star it will reflect the light of the star just as Jupiter reflects the light of the Sun. As pointed out in the article linked above.
Such an object would be visible to the naked eye as far away as Saturn (at least). Such an object would be visible in visible light telescopes at a much greater distance than, say, Pluto.
edit on 8/26/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by MissingRonnieR
This same post was on "Before it is News" and was shot down in flames. Aparently it is the Sun.edit on 26-8-2011 by MissingRonnieR because: (no reason given)
Again, They can only be viewed in infrared.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by SheopleNation
Again, They can only be viewed in infrared.
That is false. Brown dwarfs emit in the infrared part of the spectrum, but do reflect light.
Can you see a warm oven? It gives off IR that you can feel with your hand, but the oven is also visible to the eye because it reflects light.