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A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system has been found in the direction of the constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S. infrared astronomical satellite.
So mysterious is the object that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant comet, a nearby "protostar" that never got hot enough to become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever gets through.
"All I can tell you is that we don't know what it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview.
Optical imaging and spectroscopy measurements were obtained for six of the high galactic latitude infrared sources reported by Houck, et al. (1984) from the IRAS survey to have no obvious optical counterparts on the POSS prints. All are identified with visually faint galaxies that have total luminosities in the range 5 x 10 to the 11th power stellar luminosity to 5 x 10 to the 12th power stellar luminosity. This luminosity emerges virtually entirely in the infrared. The origin of the luminosity, which is one to two orders of magnitude greater than that of normal galaxies, is not known at this time.
The observatory also made headlines briefly with the discovery of an "unknown object" that was at first described as "possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this solar system." However, further analysis revealed that, of several unidentified objects, nine were distant galaxies and the tenth was "intergalactic cirrus". None were found to be Solar System bodies.
Originally posted by rainfall
Originally posted by Haydn_17
reply to post by Doglord
Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data, how does this relate to my post?
Haydn_17.....If you watch the video you will see how this guy connects the dots.....and everything seems to lead to an incoming object....the elite are preparing.
[edit on 26-2-2010 by rainfall]
If you watch the video you will see how this guy connects the dots.....and everything seems to lead to an incoming object
It is not impossible that the sun has a brown dwarf companion, but to be hidden from us it would have to be much, much further out than the Kuiper belt. Maybe like 100 times further. And at those distances its effects on the earth are pretty much zero. There are very good limits to what you can hide at what distances in the solar system and not detect their gravity. You could put a Mars at a few hundred AU (10 times more distant than Neptune, say) and everything would be fine. You could put a Jupiter at a few thousand AU (1000 the distance of Neptune), and, again, you're safe. There might even be things out there that someday we might find. I certainly hope so!
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by dragnet53
I saw it was down again last night. I guess paying bills is not a priority. I wanted to get that weird time line downloaded so I could see dates more clearly than is possible in the video.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by dragnet53
It's the second time about a month apart. A simple way to miss the payment is to switch credit cards or to have used a card that expired. Been there. Done that. Lots of this stuff is computerized and shutdowns don't require human intervention.
Originally posted by stereologist
I pay a year at a time even though the company wants me to pay 3 years at a time. It isn't that much money is it?
Dang. It is starting to sound like a conspiracy. I hate it when this happens!
OK. How about this. Maybe it's bandwidth. I know in the Old Time Radio arena people are getting squeezed by their ISPs for sharing old shows way out of copyright. Maybe there have been too many clicks and he is being screwed because people want to see his stuff. It happens.
admin Says:
April 27th, 2010 at 1:59 am
It very well could be a hoax, I haven’t come to a clear decision either way. Just thought I’d put the information out there.
'So the story goes'