Astronomers Say There Could Be At Least Two More Mystery Planets In Our Solar System (sciencealert.com) 84
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.
Distance? (Score:5, Interesting)
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... is just numerology. Fails for Neptune and exoplanets.
So there would be 11 then? (Score:5, Insightful)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto. That is what I learned. A couple more would be dandy!!
Re:So there would be 11 then? (Score:5, Funny)
Most solar systems only go up to 10 . . . but ours goes up to 11!
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Same here. Luckily, only three had been discovered then.
Re:So there would be 11 then? (Score:4, Funny)
Speaking of Uranus,
A Muslim walks into a gay bar and says to the bartender "Shots for everyone!"
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Your Anus is not its real name. (Score:2)
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
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you could name one probe "catheter" and the other "colonoscopy".
Obligatory Psych reference (Score:2)
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Mother very easily made a jam sandwich using no peanu tbutter mayonaisse or glue
Re:76 planets (Score:4)
Star light is invisible in space? WTF?
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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!
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#BlackPlanetsMatter
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Re:76 planets (Score:4, Funny)
On Slashdot, no one can hear you banging your head against the wall at some of the truly Burning Stoopid posts. . .
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I hope this was a woosh
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Don't browse /. while high on meth.
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Don't browse /. while high on meth.
weed is ok
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Obviously, I'd venture to say it's almost an requirement with some of the posts.
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Some already post from the loony bin...such as a three letter name found in my signature.
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Note: this does not apply to editing.
Re: 76 planets (Score:1)
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.
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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
Oh, boy (Score:2)
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.
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Nope. Lemmy.
We didn't get the element, so we NEED to name the planet. . .
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Planety McCraterFace.
Yep, still funny.
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Re: Murder won't be illegal on such a planet (Score:1)
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 postin
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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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Attempt no landings there.
The next four discovered planets must be called (Score:2)
. . . Persephone, CaÃna, Antenora, and Ptoleme. . . .
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Mystery Planets? (Score:2)
Never mind the Mystery and Thriller planets, I want to see the Science Fiction and Fantasy planets
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Meddling kids... (Score:2)
Do-over for the high school textbooks (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
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Because finding the thousands of exoplanets isn't interesting enough?
Oops... (Score:1)
Sorry for the false alarm guys, seems they accidentally forgot to take into account the gravitational pull of my nuts. ;-)
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Yes, but they took into account the vacuum where your brain is supposed to be so it's more than balanced out.
Planet 9 from Outer Space! (Score:2)
Where's Ed Wood when we need him?
Ancient cultures depicted 12 planets. (Score:2)
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 infrar