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Forums - General Discussion - The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years.

If this works out as true. Can they just name this planet pluto. And fix the nonsense already.



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NIBIRU!!!!



It's impressive to realize that we're still discovering stuff about our own solar system. Just imagine what the rest of the universe has to offer...



Bet with Teeqoz for 2 weeks of avatar and sig control that Super Mario Odyssey would ship more than 7m on its first 2 months. The game shipped 9.07m, so I won

That's impressive, i'm amazed how we can still learn a lot of the "close" space within our solar system, when we already know so much of what lay in the milky way and even outside



I want that job: "yes our calculations are correct but you won't be able to see it.. We spend years on this"



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!) 

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Pasadena California...

Hmm, guest stars on big bang theory now. Make it happen.



Riiiight. I believe that there is a planet in exact perfect orbit on the other side of the sun. I call it Counter Earth (in honour of Herbert Wyndham). It's there, we just can't see it.



Hmm, pie.

It's barely like a set of carkeys floating around up there. How have they only just discovered it?

Damned lazy half-assed astronomers. They got one job: staring in a telescope, still taken 'em centuries to find this thing.



The Fury said:
Riiiight. I believe that there is a planet in exact perfect orbit on the other side of the sun. I call it Counter Earth (in honour of Herbert Wyndham). It's there, we just can't see it.

 


Actually there are such things called lagrangian points, which mean that two bodies share the same orbit. However the lagrangian point that is 180 degrees off the orbit of the earth is unstable, so a planet couldn't be there. There are however examples of natural satelites (or "moons" if I must) that share orbits. If I recall correctly, Saturn had three moons in the same orbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point



One year there takes 15,000 earth years, eh?
If we give that planet 365 days in a year, I would be approximately 1/2 of a day old.
To compare my dent on that planet's timeline to a relative timeline dent on this Earth, about the same amount of time it would take to finish The Order 1886



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