Originally posted by blowfishdl
Since my last post was overlooked I will have to post again..
What is a dark star? If it were really a star, wouldn't it profoundly affect our solar system (really bad for our planet)?
blowfish,
A 'dark star' is a bit of a misnomer...Brown Dwarf would seem to be more accurate.
A Brown Dwarf is, in one way of thinking, a 'failed' star. Meaning, it is massive, and can radiate some heat, but had insufficient mass to coalesce
and begin to sustain thermo-nuclear reaction necessary to qualify aqs a 'star'.
Our own Jupiter may be considered an 'almost' Brown Dwarf, perhaps. But, a 'Brown Dwarf' would half to be about four or five times more massive
than Jupiter, just for starts.
Here's a sobering thought...IF a body, as massive, or more massive than Jupiter were to be on an eccentric orbit so as to bring it into the Inner
Soar System every 3600 years...that would mean its perigee is somewhere within the Earth's orbital distance from the Sun, and its apogee is far
enough out to be unobserved for most of its orbit. How very convenient.
Oh, and the claims are that is is coming from the 'Southern' plane of our Solar system...again, so convienent.
Fact is, hominids have existed in for a few million years...this alleged 'planet' comes around, inside a NeAr Earth ORBIT...EVERY 3600 Years???
Yet, this huge mass, a 'Brown Dwarf'....with planets...has not severely disrupted the orbits of the inner plqanets of our Solar System, in all of
these millions of years, millions of orbits of this 'alleged' Brown Dwarf?????
My critical tinking cap is on...is yours???