I wish nasa would learn to keep this psudeo-scientific hypothetical computer models to them selfs , untill they have actual evidence and real data to support such claims.

All articles like this does is confuse more , but i know they need things like this to make it look like they are doing something and gimme more funding .


computer models piss me off ,

Any idea how many times this has been posted?

It's a lot.

All it proves is what we know as fact today, will change tomorrow.

hmmm Planet X does not exist but a Planet or two might have been here billions of years ago?

maybe the Sumerian story ain't wrong after all.

Originally posted by LookSkywatcher
hmmm Planet X does not exist but a Planet or two might have been here billions of years ago?

maybe the Sumerian story ain't wrong after all.

The Sumerians weren't here billions of years ago, and even if they were they had no way to look at the sky other than the human eye, they wouldn't have seen it.

maybe it didn't happen billions of years ago.

As was mentioned in the other threads made about this..

This is just computer modelling and they are some of the many ways that our solar system could be as we see it today.

Nibiru/Planet X, etc, have no bearing on this as the extra giants the models in question use, were flung out and are no longer gravitationally bound to the sun. They're gone into interstellar space, never to be seen again. The models that utilized the extra giant planets in their calculations are pretty conclusive on this. Also, these are not the only models showing how the solar system may have formed.

I wouldn't call it anyone giving us a hint so much as scientists being thorough as they should be.

Picture an unseen Jupiter sized planet or two being flung out into space for every star in the sky. That is a huge amount of mass being shot randomly around. It can and does lead to rouge planets entering stellar systems.

About 5 year ago the GALEX probe sent back a series of pictures that apparently showed just this sort of thing happening. The video showed a small red object impact a star and the star became 10,000 times brighter than before. This burst of light illuminated a small ring shaped gas cloud that appeared to be less than 10 light hours from the star. Gas clouds don't stay that close to stars and and ring shaped cloud would be quickly torn out of shape by gravity. The only answer to what the cloud was, is that it was a gas giant planet that was completely disrupted by what ever it was that hit the star.

Imagine a super Earth coming in at 25% the speed of light. It would impact Jupiter and keep going. When it hit the sun the increase in output would burn us all alive. That happened in our galaxy not too long ago.

It could happen here.

From the article

"This is just a beginning," Nesvorny said. "It will need quite a lot of work to see if there actually was the fifth planet. I am not fully convinced myself."

It seems like a plausible theory, I thought I also saw a theory once that a small planet hit Jupiter causing the asteroid belt? An ejected planet would not cause any harm to Earth at this point. Maybe they are pointing to something in the Oort cloud as a possible second planet?