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Originally posted by Liberterius
Bejezus, you people really, are actually, that ignorant, I've read the paper and explained it to you. But you simpleton monkeys who don't read the history of post, and I find this truly pathetic, are STILL arguing about the OP who is obviously someone who needs to take their meds, and STFU when it comes to subjects they don't understand the first thing about. But, bejesus, you idiots are showing your true colors, and babling in your own dribbling ignorance, and asking questions aboout a subject that on your best day you couldn't even begin to approach.....HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA, my God you are PATHETIC.
Originally posted by Liberterius
Bejezus, you people really, are actually, that ignorant, I've read the paper and explained it to you. But you simpleton monkeys who don't read the history of post, and I find this truly pathetic, are STILL arguing about the OP who is obviously someone who needs to take their meds, and STFU when it comes to subjects they don't understand the first thing about. But, bejesus, you idiots are showing your true colors, and babling in your own dribbling ignorance, and asking questions aboout a subject that on your best day you couldn't even begin to approach.....HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAA HAAAAAAAAAAAA, my God you are PATHETIC.
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
So what do we have here?
104 flags and CLPrime, Chadwickus, DJW001, Blaine91555 AND Weedwhacker all taking turns "explaining" to each other that the ONLY thing this means is that the moon's orbit is more eccentric!
What is this, a company picnic?
Maybe they can explain how a mythical, hypothetical planet with 3 names is a "promising candidate:"
3.6. A distant massive object: Planet X/Nemesis/Tyche
A promising candidate for explaining the anomalous increase of the lunar eccentricity may be, at least in principle, a trans-Plutonian massive body of planetary size located in the remote peripheries of the solar system: Planet X/Nemesis/Tyche (Lykawka & Mukai 2008; Melott & Bambach 2010; Fern ́andez 2011; Matese & Whitmire 2011).
Indeed, as we will see, the perturbation induced by it would actually cause a non-vanishing long-term variation of e. Moreover, since it depends on the spatial position of X in the sky and on its tidal parameter KX
.
= GmX
d3
X ,
where mX and dX are the mass and the distance of X, respectively, it may happen that a suitable combination of them is able to reproduce the empirical result of eq. (1)...
pdf link: arxiv.org...
Now how did "promising" mathematical equations get mixed up with a "hypothetical" fairy tale planet?
edit on 3/13/2011 by GoldenFleece because: (no reason given)
Here below is a nice point made by GoldenFleece........
In principle, a viable candidate would be a putative trans-Plutonian massive object (PlanetX/Nemesis/Tyche), recently revamped to accommodate certain features of the architecture of the Kuiper belt and of the distribution of the comets in the Oort cloud, since it would cause a non-vanishing long-term variation of the eccentricity.
Actually, the values for its mass and distance needed to explain the empirically determined increase of the lunar eccentricity would be highly unrealistic and in contrast with the most recent viable theoretical scenarios for the existence of such a body. For example, a terrestrial-sized body should be located at just 30 au, while an object with the mass of Jupiter should be at 200 au.