"Aernus", A proposed new planet in the Kuiper Belt |
"Aernus", A proposed new planet in the Kuiper Belt |
Oct 11 2007, 08:40 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Tomorrow at DPS Patryk Lykawka will make a presentation where he points out to the existence of a planet with the diameter of the Earth at 100AU.
I received his answers regarding the work done yesterday, here's some of it (the rest is you know where...): "This massive planetesimal would be, now, at this moment in the history of the Solar System, orbiting the Sun at a distance of, at least, 100 AU, or, simplifying, 3 to 4 times more distant from our star than Pluto. A far, massive, transplutonian planet in the Lykawka’s description who remarks the importance that the orbital evolution of this planet may be the key to answer several unexplained enigmas of the Kuiper Belt, among which he points out a few…: The excitation actually observed in the region between 40 and 50 AU is one, another are the populations of different types of objects in the Belt and their orbital characteristics. Another two pieces of the puzzle can also be put into place under Patrik work: the Belt’s truncated region in the 48 AU region and its small total mass." What's your opinion regarding this?... According to him this is not like Planet X, his study even erases Planet X from the map... EDITED: "Aernus" is the name I'm using, it was the divinity of the Zoelae, a pre-historic tribe that lived in the most remote corner of my country... -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Jun 18 2008, 11:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Organizations such as IAU exist by virtue of broad agreement to accept their declarations and rulings. When these groups tread outside the bounds of popular opinion and become controversial they risk that universal acceptance and accordingly their usefulness as an organization comes into question. Not that I'm part of any cabal, or anything like that.
-------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Jun 19 2008, 12:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2530 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321 |
Even beyond the controversy, we've had the following categories invoked re: Pluto's possible membership in the past several years:
Planet (pre-2006 status) Planet (the definition it had for a few days including Ceres, Eris, and Charon) Planet (the latest definition, excluding Pluto) Minor Planet (re: proposals to give it a Minor Planet number) Dwarf Planet Kuiper Belt Object Trans-Neptunian Object Plutino Plutoid Planetoid? Pluto is in six to eight of these categories by the current official reckoning, which is remarkable when you consider that we don't know that much about it. This is a mess. It was honestly someone's idea to look at the previously existing nine categories and conjure up a new one? How many times can you screw up a joke before the audience wants you off the stage? The IAU is *way* past that limit. |
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