Interesting orbit.

Must be an invisible thread connecting these.

Dont think there is any connection......but you never know.

Hope you are wearing your mental flack jacket!

Originally posted by PlanetXisHERE
Many have debated on ATS the existence of highly elliptical planetary orbits, some saying they could not exist, and using this to debunk the existence of certain possible objects in our own solar system.

Must have missed this "could not exist" discussion. Care to provide a cite?

Note carefully that "could not exist" is different than "unstable".

I'm hoping this isn't a masked attempt to make Nibiru legitimate =)

But yeah I read about this the other day .. it's very interesting and left scientists a bit baffled.

Originally posted by miniatus
Halley's comet isn't mentioned in the original post, nor is it mentioned in the article... what are you talking about?

The picture of the Swiss bank note is one that has the old astronomer Euler on the other side of the note.
On the side shown, is a copy of a drawing that Euler made of comet Halley's orbit.

Originally posted by alfa1

Originally posted by miniatus
Halley's comet isn't mentioned in the original post, nor is it mentioned in the article... what are you talking about?

The picture of the Swiss bank note is one that has the old astronomer Euler on the other side of the note.
On the side shown, is a copy of a drawing that Euler made of comet Halley's orbit.

Point taken... and agreed, that image doesn't apply since it's a comet and not a planet...

Originally posted by PlanetXisHERE
Feel free to use the ATS "search" function, if you are truly so desirious of a citation:

I did do a search before posting, and only found discussion relating to the instability of highly eccentric orbits, and none pertaining to their impossibility.

As shown on the swiss banknote, comet Halley is a very famous example of a highly eliptical orbit.
Thus the incredulity that you could state that people claim such orbits are impossible.

Originally posted by alfa1

Originally posted by miniatus
Halley's comet isn't mentioned in the original post, nor is it mentioned in the article... what are you talking about?

The picture of the Swiss bank note is one that has the old astronomer Euler on the other side of the note.
On the side shown, is a copy of a drawing that Euler made of comet Halley's orbit.

Some people think it represents something else entirely, the supposed planetary object "Hercolubus".

Anyway, the point of the OP is that highly elliptical orbits do exist.

However, these two pictures do look quite similar:

Scientist's are slowly trying to ease us into the truth!

IMO, langrangian points for binary systems with sometimes shared exoplanets in temporarily highly eliptical orbits may be fleeting (with fleeting being relative) but common. Since binaries are common, why wouldn't a smattering of shared planets be common. Perhaps the time of closest approach is the time that comets and planetoids and exoplanets become shared.

If, as in the case of the 2000 year orbit for Fomalhaut b, this close approach is just a one time occurence, we wouldn't know, and there is no data from 2000 years ago to verify that it happened before.

It's kind of like the theories of how our spate of recent (past few decades) comets were originally disturbed out of the Oort by a passing star millions or billions of years ago. It just makes more sense to consider a binary. And, in considering a binary, to grasp that the objects entering our system may not be the same objects as entered 3600, 12,000 and 24,000 to 26,000 years ago.

These article writers need to understand the difference between perigee and perihelion. The former is "closest approach to Earth", and the latter is "closest approach to the Sun".

Oh look! A thinly veiled attampt to justify nibirus ever changing and impossible status / orbit / location!

Originally posted by PlanetXisHERE
However, these two pictures do look quite similar:

Any highly elliptical orbit will look similar to the supposed orbit of Nibiru. As has been pointed out above, the question is whether a planet with such an orbit exists in the Solar System (and the answer is no).