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Amishman

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17. We wouldn't see it now if it passed through a billion years ago

Reply to Shanti Shanti Shanti (Reply #15)

Fri Sep 17, 2021, 06:04 AM

Sep 2021

What I was wondering is could something massive like that have passed through out solar system without being captured, and disturbed the orbits of these objects on the way through.

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Planet 9 again? Cosmic objects with strange orbits discovered beyond Neptune [View all] Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Sep 2021 #1

A space race with China to be the first to land on Planet 9? That would be drama Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #2

What about Pluto? It's beyond Neptune and must have... brush Sep 2021 #3

Pluto is smaller than Earth's moon, hardly enough gravity to move orbits of distant objects Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #6

I don't know about that. It's got to be among the largest of... brush Sep 2021 #7

No, the vast distances involved would need something 10X times heavier than earth Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author brush Sep 2021 #13

Hmmm...Planet Nine From Outer Space... First Speaker Sep 2021 #4

. . . hatrack Sep 2021 #18

I have a call into Agent Mike. Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this. madinmaryland Sep 2021 #5

Duck Dodgers in the 24th and half century! roamer65 Sep 2021 #8

Finally, the alien base is discovered, they arent from the stars, just our neighbors, lol Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #10

What if.... Xolodno Sep 2021 #11

Anything that far out has to have an orbital period 300 years, at least... Wounded Bear Sep 2021 #12

They've been tracking the objects with the odd orbits for several years, I believe. myccrider Sep 2021 #16

Must it still be here, or could it have been something passing through? Amishman Sep 2021 #14

I read where they have infrared scanned a sky survey and found nothing hot from anything like that Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #15

We wouldn't see it now if it passed through a billion years ago Amishman Sep 2021 #17

Orbits are not random, a mass that affects planetoids orbits today, is still there, a gravity well Shanti Shanti Shanti Sep 2021 #19

That idea would be that the brown dwarf passed by, arranged the planetoids in their unusual orbits muriel_volestrangler Sep 2021 #21

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