RE: Mega structure found
October 16, 2015 at 7:39 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2015 at 7:57 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 15, 2015 at 9:58 pm)IATIA Wrote: It could simply be a rogue asteroid field between us and KIC 8462852. Depending on the location, small objects can obscure large. Our moon covers the sun.
That's because the moon is very close to the earth compared to the sun.
If an object is periodically blocking the line of sight between us and KIC8462852, then it must either orbit us closely, or orbit KIC8462852 closely. Otherwise the periodicity of the blocking would be very long.
If it orbits us closely, I'd hope we would know it by now, and it would be odd if that object only block the light of sight to KIC8462852, and nothing else in our sky.
If it orbits KIC8462852 closely, then it's dimensions must be enormous to cover the star for so long with each orbit.
