reply to post by stereologist
Yeah, that is reasonable explanation, besides when the New York times broke the "Mystery heavenly body discovered" A distant, dark, galaxy was one of
the possibilities the NASA scientists were pondering when they said "All I can tell you is we don't know what it is"
I can see how conspiracy theorists would smell a cover up, but the fact he initially said a galaxy could be it, and it was new piece of hardware at
the time like you said. It all adds up... It's just a damn galaxy bah
Needless to say this realization put a major roadblock in my quest to find celestial bodies near our solar system haha! I'm not giving up though, not
until NASA, or even Russia, China, India come out with concrete proof that we have a single sun with 9 planets(because Pluto kicks ass!) I know it is
silly, but I will remain on the fence. I can safely say C/2010X1 is not Hercolubus ROFL! We'd be having Earthquakes and Tsunamis, Superstorms all day
everday!
eta: C/2010X1 HAS CROSSED MARS'S ORBIT WE'D WOULD SEE IT PLAIN AS DAY(if it was the infamous winged globe), just throwing that out there.

edit on 21-7-2011 by Centurionx because: (no reason given)