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Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System (sciencealert.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from ScienceAlert: A team of astronomers has performed new calculations on the data that originally gave rise to the Planet Nine hypothesis, and these new numbers suggest that the hypothetical extra planet might not be alone -- there could be multiple planets hiding at the edge of our Solar System that we've yet to discover. If the researchers are correct -- which nobody knows for sure right now -- it could really mean a do-over for the high school textbooks. The scientists estimate that Planet Nine is 10 times more massive than Earth, and think it performs an extremely elongated orbit of the Sun, that takes between 10,000 and 20,000 years to complete. The Caltech researchers based their hypothesis for the existence of Planet Nine on the unusual movement of six large objects floating in the Kuiper belt, suggesting that their orbits are being shaped by a hidden planet.
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Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto. That is what I learned. A couple more would be dandy!!
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Star light is invisible in space? WTF?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This claim will eventually make it in to mainstream news, except presented as a claim of certainty rather than hypothesis. Which is going to be followed by a lot of "Niburu discovered!" posts on social media.
If you can't hear any noise then surely you shouldn't be able to see any light either.
Otherwise it would be racist. Social justice for everyone! Equality now!
Don't browse /. while high on meth.
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On Slashdot, no one can hear you banging your head against the wall at some of the truly Burning Stoopid posts. . .
Don't browse /. while high on meth.
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If a tenth planet is discovered, we must name it Mondas.
a few more asshats like you and there will be no more AC posting here, it's inevitable. Well played sir, well played. As well as a racist dickhole douchebag could play anything I suppose.
This claim will eventually make it in to mainstream news, except presented as a claim of certainty rather than hypothesis. Which is going to be followed by a lot of "Niburu discovered!" posts on social media.
Now that you mention it, it DOES sounds a lot like Nibiru including it's historically recorded orbit time range. Thanks for bringing it up!
Obviously, I'd venture to say it's almost an requirement with some of the posts.
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Then the racism will come from logged-in users. Obviously you're too young to remember trolls like Ralph JewHater Nader. A lot of the logged-in trolls frequently made racist remarks as part of their shit posting. The only reason it comes from ACs is that logged-in trolls are limited to two posts per day. However, if AC posting is eliminated, I guarantee you'll see logged-in trolls making lots of racist posts. Hell, I've even seen uses who post at +1 or +2 make some pretty racist comments at times. AC posting isn't going away, but even if it did, it wouldn't eliminate the racist trolls. I guess you're just too young to remember all the logged-in trolls that used to frequent Slashdot.
there could be at least 76 planets
STAR LIGHT IS INVISIBLE IN SPACE
yet Nasa shows starlights in lots of the vids
Two planets? Check.
Hidden? Yep, one of them.
One? The other's not hidden; just forbidden
Richard Hoagland is vindicated.
. . . Persephone, CaÃna, Antenora, and Ptoleme. . . .
How does "could be" square with "at least" ?
ANSWER: It doesn't.
there could be at least 76 planets
STAR LIGHT IS INVISIBLE IN SPACE
yet Nasa shows starlights in lots of the vids
You have it all wrong. Starlight is visible in space, it's just from the surface of the moon that NASA says starlight isn't visible according to the moon landing videos.
Well, actually three - if one considers pluto a planet hidden from the minds of astronomers...
Sounds like you're racist towards AC's. Sad!
very easily
#BlackPlanetsMatter
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At the bottom of the
I think otherwise this site becomes a one way ticket to the looney bin.
Can you see starlight during the day?
Herschel did not name the planet Uranus, he called it "the Georgium Sidus" (the Georgian Planet) in honor of King George III of England.
Though they should build two more new probes, identical and send one to uranus and one to neptune.
Common whats 4-6 billion dollars, a weeks military budget.
Just print so more fuking money retards, or ask bill gates to pay for it or bloody just bill it to Apple, since they pay no taxes
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
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Slashdot is edited?!!?!?!!
Well, you must be living on one of those two new planets.
1. the sun
2. stars during eclipse
3. stars from the space station
4. a super nova
5. long exposure with blue filter
6. the moons light came from the sun
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
Never mind the Mystery and Thriller planets, I want to see the Science Fiction and Fantasy planets
all visible on atmosphere
without atmosphere, special diffuser lenses, out of spectrum camera, would be invisible
These planets would have never been found, if it weren't for you meddling kids.
The 12th Planet, Nibiru.
#BlackMatterPlanets ?
Don't know about others, but I do not think amending textbooks (science, at least) is a bad thing. Being in school in 2017-2027 and reading something along the lines of "these planets where only discovered in 2016" would go a long way to get me interested in a STEM career.
Free, as in your money being freed from the confines of your account.
Sorry for the false alarm guys, seems they accidentally forgot to take into account the gravitational pull of my nuts. ;-)
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Where's Ed Wood when we need him?
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
I hope this was a woosh
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
During the lunar day, yes. Perhaps it escaped your notice that there's this bright thing called the Sun who's brightness makes in impossible to see stars. Perhaps its also escaped your notice that the Sun shines I n the lunar daytime sky as well. Furthermore the presence or absence of an atmosphere has no effect in this phenomenon.
We already know of at least one such planet: Yuggoth. Yuggoth has traditionally been assumed to be Pluto, but since there are no Mi-gos there, we know that has to be wrong.
Wow, I was only aware of Gor.
Is this the elusive 'Planet X' (coined when Pluto was still a planet) Nibiru?
What planet where YOU guys living on? It's called "Sedna" and it's been known for a while now.
Some already post from the loony bin...such as a three letter name found in my signature.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
"whose", not "who's". Who's means who is.
What's special about starlight? You could just make a vacuum in a tube and test to see if light goes through a vacuum?
Sorry for the false alarm guys, seems they accidentally forgot to take into account the gravitational pull of my nuts. ;-)
Indeed. Scientific astronomical measurements are often done to (what would seem to ordinary people to be) ludicrous levels of precision and can be thrown off by a mass as small as that of two shrivelled raisins!
a few more asshats like you and there will be no more AC posting here, it's inevitable
Unlikely, unless Slashdot's new owners take a significantly different approach.
I've been here since 2002, and there's pretty much always been racist trolling from ACs; if anything, it seemed to be slightly higher in the past.
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Dark matter planets are MACHO!
Almost all ancient cultures depicted a solar system of 12 planets. Early civilizations like the Sumerians considered the planets to be Gods, which later transpired to the Greek Dodecatheon (12 gods) and the 12 disciples of Jesus.
It is quite surprising to me that we can't detect these bodies. It is ok not to detect them on visible light, but what about the infrared? IRAS was supposed to have discovered a large planetary body at the border of our solar system in 1982. Shouldn't we have ten times better infrared telescopes today?