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New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 22, 2016 at 8:59 am (This post was last modified: January 22, 2016 at 9:01 am by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(January 20, 2016 at 8:51 pm)Stimbo Wrote:
(January 20, 2016 at 7:42 pm)MrNoMorePropaganda Wrote: inb4 Quran miraculously predicts our solar system has this many planets. Btw Pluto is planet.

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned Pluto should get planet status back, if only for reasons of tradition.

I think that's an irony - you intended that, right? Smile
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 22, 2016 at 9:31 am
(January 21, 2016 at 10:19 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: It could have formed by collection of material.

I think the current view on solar system formation is the original debris disk around the sun is too sparse beyond the orbit of Neptune to support the accretion in situ of a planet sized body, which is why only Pluto sized objects or smaller are expected to form there.

Any larger planet sized object would have had to form closer in the solar system. If any are in the Keiper belt now, it would have to have been moved out there through gravitational interaction. Unless the body had multiple chance encounters, any single major gravitation interaction should leave the perihelion close to where it had been. So this would mean the perihelion of a planet thrown out into the Keiper belt should still be reasonably close to may be the orbit of Pluto.
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 22, 2016 at 9:32 am
(January 22, 2016 at 9:31 am)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(January 21, 2016 at 10:19 am)Gawdzilla Wrote: It could have formed by collection of material.

I think the current view on solar system formation is the original debris disk around the sun is too sparse beyond the orbit of Neptune to support the accretion in situ of a planet sized body, which is why only Pluto sized objects or smaller are expected to form there.

Any larger planet sized object would have had to form closer in the solar system.  If any are in the Keiper belt now, it would have to have been moved out there through gravitational interaction.   Unless the body had multiple chance encounters, any single major gravitation interaction should leave the perihelion close to where it had been.  So this would mean the perihelion of a planet thrown out into the Keiper belt should still be reasonably close to may be the orbit of Pluto.
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 22, 2016 at 5:56 pm
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 22, 2016 at 6:34 pm
I didn't check the source; but SMBC, right?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 23, 2016 at 5:28 pm
There's even more planets yet to be discovered than the nine we know about. The Quran says there are actually eleven planets (not sure if it means in our solar system only or the entire universe, but those are details which we don't need to concern ourselves with). So this supposed new planet, which is the subject of this topic is, actually not the only undiscovered one. All hail this miraculous astronomy textbook. Worship
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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 23, 2016 at 5:30 pm
(January 22, 2016 at 6:34 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I didn't check the source; but SMBC, right?

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RE: New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system
January 24, 2016 at 7:33 pm
Ah, of course.
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