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Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by excalibrate
I don't believe that is a good example of what our solar system looks like.
The important thing to remember is that no object has been found in the outer reaches of the solar system. Furthermore, details scans out as far as the Kuiper belt have turned up nothing larger than a Pluto sized object.
Originally posted by ElectricUniverse
Not to long ago the mention of Nemesis, or a companion brown dwarf existing within the Solar System would just bring a chuckle to many, even though ancient cultures have left us messages about it. Now science is bringing us closer to the truth.
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Originally posted by this_is_who_we_are
Therefore your statement is valid. We have not found a new Jupiter mass object in our Solar system. Yet. But there exists a preponderance of scientific data to support the hypothesis that such an object exists, and that binary systems are not the exception but are in fact common.
In this Letter I compare recent findings suggesting a low binary star fraction for late-type stars with knowledge concerning the forms of the stellar initial and present-day mass functions for masses down to the hydrogen-burning limit. This comparison indicates that most stellar systems formed in the Galaxy are likely single and not binary, as has been often asserted. Indeed, in the current epoch two-thirds of all main-sequence stellar systems in the Galactic disk are composed of single stars. Some implications of this realization for understanding the star and planet formation process are briefly mentioned.
We have not found a new Jupiter mass object in our Solar system. Yet. But there exists a preponderance of scientific data to support the hypothesis that such an object exists, and that binary systems are not the exception but are in fact common.
Originally posted by stereologist
reply to post by this_is_who_we_are
I have never stated that no Jupiter sized mass cannot exist in the solar system. What I have stated is that such an object must be far away and never enter the orbits of the known planets.