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Does Earth have a new friend? An astrophysicist says it's likely that an as-yet undiscovered planet exists on the dark fringes of our solar system, messing with the orbits of celestial bodies in the Kuiper Belt, just beyond Neptune
Secret rogue planet may be hiding behind Neptune
Originally posted by LightSpeedDriver
reply to post by freakjive
Aren't the operative words "may be" though? Not trying to rain on the fire but scientists often use the word "may" to cover their posteriors.
Originally posted by blackmetalmist
Well lets hope that this so called planet which seems to have "floated" this way doesnt continue floating its way over here. Cause then that would be a serious problem. And then I may have to bite my tongue on those Nibiru theories
Originally posted by chrismicha77
Wow....I just watched the movie Melancholia this weekend, what timing. It's about a rogue planet about to collide with Earth. Maybe it could happen, maybe not.
Originally posted by jheated5
They say the planet happened to fly in here from other solar system? I'm not buying it..... The idea of planet just flying around and just happens to fall in orbit behind another planet doesn't sit well with me....
Originally posted by Nakor
They say we cannot see this planet...a bunch of bull if you ask me. We see planets billions of light years away, can tell what the planet COULD be made of but yet we can't see this in our own solar system?
I'm sure there would be a way to find this even if we go by the method of how we found the new planet when it transit near the sun. I just can't agree with the scientist on the Nation Geographic article which stated that we will not be able to see the planet. In my opinion, there should be some way we could find it whether it be with a craft we have out there already or with a telescope here on earth.
Originally posted by six67seven
Originally posted by chrismicha77
Wow....I just watched the movie Melancholia this weekend, what timing. It's about a rogue planet about to collide with Earth. Maybe it could happen, maybe not.
Hey I just watched Melancholia on Saturday and Sunday night. Had to break it up because it was long and slow and put me to sleep but it reminded me of Another Earth (but with a totally different story line). Another Earth was much much better... though I did appreciate Earth getting demolished in Melancholia.
Planet X bad!!edit on 14-5-2012 by six67seven because: Melancholia
Originally posted by blackmetalmist
reply to post by LifeInDeath
Is it possible for this planet to end up crashing into another? Somehow being pulled by a gravitational force?