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Something Big Is Warping Our Outer Solar System (futurity.org)
schwit1 quotes Futurity:
The plane of our solar system is warped in the outer reaches of the Kuiper Belt, suggesting the presence of an unknown Mars-to-Earth-mass planetary object far beyond Pluto -- but much closer than Planet Nine. An unknown, unseen "planetary mass object" may lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system, according to new research on the orbits of minor planets.
The object would be different from -- and much closer than -- the so-called Planet Nine, a planet whose existence has yet to be confirmed... "The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass," says Kat Volk, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and lead author of the study in the Astronomical Journal. "According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured."
The object would be different from -- and much closer than -- the so-called Planet Nine, a planet whose existence has yet to be confirmed... "The most likely explanation for our results is that there is some unseen mass," says Kat Volk, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and lead author of the study in the Astronomical Journal. "According to our calculations, something as massive as Mars would be needed to cause the warp that we measured."
We only just knocked the last "Planet Nine" theory and now we've got ANOTHER ONE?!
See:
https://medium.com/starts-with...
It's a breach in the Immaterium. Prepare for the warp storms, pray that the god-emperor will see us through safely.
Om, nomnomnom...
Zecharia Sitchin was a hugely influential man who changed the way that many people view human life, human nature, and our role in the cosmos.
1. The ancient Mesopotamian gods were actually real, only they were not actually gods. They were alien beings. Lacking the language to discuss extraterrestrial life, the ancients simply referred to them as “gods.”
2. There is another planet in our solar system which is presently undiscovered by modern scientists. It follows a slow elliptical orbit somewhere beyond Neptune, and crosses into the inner solar system ever 3,600 years or so. This planet may be referred to as Marduk or Planet Nibiru.
3. A collision between Nibiru and Tiamat (another hypothesized planet which no longer exists—if it ever did) created the Earth as well as the asteroid belt and the comets. This is the “twelfth planet” (the sun and moon are counted along with Pluto).
4. Nibiru is home to a race of extraterrestrials. These are the Anunnaki of Sumerian lore, and may also be the Nephilim as referenced in Genesis.
5. The Anunnaki visited earth during the times of the ancient Sumerians. Searching for gold to sustain their homeworld, they needed workers to help them mine it. For this purpose, they genetically engineered a slave race—humans. This corresponds with the Mesopotamian story involving Enki and Enlil.
6. Human civilization was for a time overseen entirely by alien forces. Human kings were appointed however to serve as intermediaries. Eventually however conflict set in between the Anunnaki themselves. The “evil wind” written about in the Lament for Ur is actually nuclear weapon fallout.
7. The Great Flood as discussed in Judeo-Christian and Mesopotamian lore was actually caused by Nibiru the last time it came close to Earth.
The next time Nibiru returns, it may again cause global devastation. This could take the form of natural disaster and/or the return of our alien overlords.
The scale is exactly what lets you detect the issue. The orbital time in days for Neptune is 60,200 days. Sixty Thousand days. Its orbital velocity is 5.43 km/sec. even a very TINY change to that speed over that many days will put it far out of the expected location and that is what we detect.
That we cannot see it... maybe it's a small black hole?
It's really far away, and brightness drops with 4th power of distance, so even a regular planet-sized object would be very hard to see. It's not that massive either, only estimated to have the mass of Mars, so that's a relatively small planet.