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I'm afraid the research of this Brazilian astronomer will be launched into maximum oblivion
Originally posted by MeesterB
my god phage I have no idea how you can keep coming back and trying to explain real life to these people.
If I read something along the lines of, "I reject your explanation. Therefore it can not be disproved, so it must exist." one more time then my head is going to explode.
I'm glad science is based on demonstrable evidence and not wild speculation.
Originally posted by 1AnunnakiBastard
reply to post by alfa1
YES it has to do with Nibiru, concerning the elongated orbit and the way it disturbs the objects in the Kuiper belt, and YES the astronomer claim have found something behind Neptune, and his speculation is only about the nature of the object.
How big exactly the planetary body might be isn't clear, but there are a lot of possibilities, Gomes added.
Based on his calculations, Gomes thinks a Neptune-size world, about four times bigger than Earth, orbiting 140 billion miles (225 billion kilometers) away from the sun—about 1,500 times farther than Earth—would do the trick.
But so would a Mars-size object—roughly half Earth's size—in a highly elongated orbit that would occasionally bring the body sweeping to within 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) of the sun.
Gomes speculates that the mystery object could be a rogue planet that was kicked out of its own star system and later captured by the sun's gravity. (See "'Nomad' Planets More Common Than Thought, May Orbit Black Holes.")
news.nationalgeographic.com...
Originally posted by MeesterB
my god phage I have no idea how you can keep coming back and trying to explain real life to these people.
If I read something along the lines of, "I reject your explanation. Therefore it can not be disproved, so it must exist." one more time then my head is going to explode.
I'm glad science is based on demonstrable evidence and not wild speculation.
Originally posted by Phage
Gomes offers two alternatives;
1) A Neptune sized object with an orbit of 140 billion miles. Such an object would have an orbital period of about 58,000 years. Not quite the 3,600 which Sitchin claimed for his mythical Nibiru.
2) A Mars sized object which has a perihelion of 5 billion miles. Nibiru is supposed to intrude upon the inner Solar System every 3,600 years. 5 billion miles is beyond the orbit of Pluto. That doesn't qualify either.edit on 5/14/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)