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WISE search wasn't even looking for an Earth sized planet. It was only looking for a Neptune sized object at up to 10,000AU, or Jupiter sized or bigger at up to 26,000AU.
Astrophysics > Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Flipping minor bodies: what comet 96P/Machholz 1 can tell us about the orbital evolution of extreme trans-Neptunian objects and the production of near-Earth objects on retrograde orbits
C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos, S. J. Aarseth
(Submitted on 23 Oct 2014 (v1), last revised 6 Nov 2014 (this version, v3))
Nearly all known extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) have argument of perihelion close to 0 degrees. An existing observational bias strongly favours the detection of ETNOs with arguments of perihelion close to 0 degrees and 180 degrees yet no objects have been found at 180 degrees. No plausible explanation has been offered so far to account for this unusual pattern. Here, we study the dynamical evolution of comet 96P/Machholz 1, a bizarre near-Earth object (NEO) that may provide the key to explain the puzzling clustering of orbits around argument of perihelion close to 0 degrees recently found for the population of ETNOs. Comet 96P/Machholz 1 is currently locked in a Kozai resonance with Jupiter such that the value of its argument of perihelion is always close to 0 degrees at its shortest possible perihelion (highest eccentricity and lowest inclination) and about 180 degrees near its shortest aphelion (longest perihelion distance, lowest eccentricity and highest inclination). If this object is a dynamical analogue (albeit limited) of the known ETNOs, this implies that massive perturbers must keep them confined in orbital parameter space. Besides, its future dynamical evolution displays orbital flips when its eccentricity is excited to a high value and its orbit turns over by nearly 180 degrees, rolling over its major axis. This unusual behaviour, that is preserved when post-Newtonian terms are included in the numerical integrations, may also help understand the production of NEOs on retrograde orbits.
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
Get it? or are you still too busy trying to tell NASA planetary scientists what is and what isn't a type of brown dwarf?...
WISE 0855−0714 (full designation WISE J085510.83−071442.5[4]) is a (sub-)brown dwarf
Seems to me a perihelion resonance with Jupiter and Saturn explains things nicely.
originally posted by: wildespace
Now, this thread has a lot more validity than the ravings about Nibiru / Brown Dwarf.
One or more planets _may_ be out there, we just have to find them. Any proposition for a brown dwarf in the outer solar system would have to have a hell lot more evidence to even consider it possible.
originally posted by: EndOfDays77
I have brought up much of the data from this blog (below) on ATS and no one can/will touch it,because it is undebatable and those on the payroll also do their best to criticize this subject,I should know after my first thread was on PX..wow that was tough work..
unprecedented particle eddys of magnetons behind the Earth,which have appeared over the last two weeks and this does not correlate to originating from the Sun I'm afraid
these rapid substorm-related flows are usually directed generally sunward
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
Seems to me a perihelion resonance with Jupiter and Saturn explains things nicely.
Title:
Flipping minor bodies: what comet 96P/Machholz 1 can tell us about the orbital evolution of extreme trans-Neptunian objects and the production of near-Earth objects on retrograde orbits
Authors:
de la Fuente Marcos, Carlos; de la Fuente Marcos, Raúl; Aarseth, Sverre J.
Affiliation:
AA(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, E-28040 Madrid, Spain [email protected]), AB(Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria, E-28040 Madrid, Spain), AC(Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, UK)
Publication:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 446, Issue 2, p.1867-1873 (MNRAS Homepage)
Publication Date:
01/2015
Origin:
OUP
Astronomy Keywords:
relativistic processes, celestial mechanics, comets: individual: 96P/Machholz 1, minor planets, asteroids: individual: 2012 VP113, planets and satellites: individual: Earth, planets and satellites: individual: Jupiter
Abstract Copyright:
2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/stu2230
Bibliographic Code:
2015MNRAS.446.1867D
Abstract
Nearly all known extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) have argument of perihelion close to 0°. An existing observational bias strongly favours the detection of ETNOs with arguments of perihelion close to 0° and 180° yet no objects have been found at 180°. No plausible explanation has been offered so far to account for this unusual pattern. Here, we study the dynamical evolution of comet 96P/Machholz 1, a bizarre near-Earth object (NEO) that may provide the key to explain the puzzling clustering of orbits around argument of perihelion close to 0° recently found for the population of ETNOs. Comet 96P/Machholz 1 is currently locked in a Kozai resonance with Jupiter such that the value of its argument of perihelion is always close to 0° at its shortest possible perihelion (highest eccentricity and lowest inclination) and about 180° near its shortest aphelion (longest perihelion distance, lowest eccentricity and highest inclination). If this object is a dynamical analogue (albeit limited) of the known ETNOs, this implies that massive perturbers must keep them confined in orbital parameter space. Besides, its future dynamical evolution displays orbital flips when its eccentricity is excited to a high value and its orbit turns over by nearly 180°, rolling over its major axis. This unusual behaviour, that is preserved when post-Newtonian terms are included in the numerical integrations, may also help understand the production of NEOs on retrograde orbits.
Trans-Neptunian objects suggest that there are more dwarf planets in our solar system
Date:
January 15, 2015
Source:
Plataforma SINC
Summary:
There could be at least two unknown dwarf planets hidden well beyond Pluto, whose gravitational influence determines the orbits and strange distribution of objects observed beyond Neptune. This has been revealed by numerical calculations. If confirmed, this hypothesis would revolutionize solar system models. Astronomers have spent decades debating whether some dark trans-Plutonian planet remains to be discovered within the solar system. According to scientists not only one, but at least two planets must exist to explain the orbital behavior of extreme trans-Neptunian objects.
Astronomers have spent decades debating whether some dark trans-Plutonian planet remains to be discovered within the solar system. According to the calculations of scientists at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) and the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) not only one, but at least two planets must exist to explain the orbital behaviour of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNO).
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Yet what is observed in a dozen of these bodies is quite different: the values of the semi-major axis are very disperse (between 150 AU and 525 AU), the average inclination of their orbit is around 20° and argument of Perihelion -31°, without appearing in any case close to 180°.
"This excess of objects with unexpected orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are altering the distribution of the orbital elements of the ETNO and we consider that the most probable explanation is that other unknown planets exist beyond Neptune and Pluto," explains Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, scientist at the UCM and co-author of the study. "The exact number is uncertain, given that the data that we have is limited, but our calculations suggest that there are at least two planets, and probably more, within the confines of our solar system," adds the astrophysicist.
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originally posted by: ngchunter
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
Get it? or are you still too busy trying to tell NASA planetary scientists what is and what isn't a type of brown dwarf?...
Since you can't be honest about my point of posting my picture I see no point in continuing this discussion, but no matter how hard you deny it, less than 13 MJ is a sub-brown dwarf mass.
WISE 0855−0714 (full designation WISE J085510.83−071442.5[4]) is a (sub-)brown dwarf
en.wikipedia.org...
Trans-Neptunian objects suggest that there are more dwarf planets in our solar system
According to the calculations of scientists at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) and the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) not only one, but at least two planets must exist to explain the orbital behaviour of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNO).
originally posted by: ElectricUniverse
a reply to: JadeStar
How do you explain that extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) are so closely bunch together having an argument of perihelion close to 0 degrees?
Some large object/s has/have to keep them there. They can't just stay in that orbit by magic.