Originally posted by Broadsword20068
I read that they knew something was tugging at Jupiter and Saturn
From what I understand, and this is covered in more detail in the thread I linked to above, there was an orbital anomoly for neptune and uranus or
something, and this lead to the discovery of pluto (amoun other things). However, the mass of pluto wasn't sufficient to account for the anamoly, so
another planet seemed like it should be there. However, there was a more accurate measure of the masses invovled, and it was found that there was, in
fact, no anamoly because of this. Therefore, the only actual evidence for planet X was gone.
I'm sure it didn't get notariety here for being a simple planet
Actually that is about it. There's also a related myth that there is a planet called 'niribu' that has a very eccentric orbit of a few thousands
years that has aliens living on it who built the pyramids and lace their atmosphere with gold to protect it from cosmic radiation, or something
too.
[edit on 22-1-2005 by Nygdan]