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Potentially major ALMA array discovery?
antipode
post Dec 10 2015, 05:20 AM
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This could be big. At the very least its an interesting discovery, but there's a chance it might change our view of the solar system.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02652.pdf

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post Dec 13 2015, 10:31 PM
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how many chances Galileo Galilei had to see Neptune, while he was in conjunction with Jupiter? Everything is possible ... then its proximity to Alpha Centauri would have masked WISE ... we can not rule anything!
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- antipode   Potentially major ALMA array discovery?   Dec 10 2015, 05:20 AM
- - dtolman   Based off the range of possibilities (large & ...   Dec 10 2015, 02:39 PM
- - ZLD   I'm going to stay cautiously optimistic here a...   Dec 10 2015, 03:08 PM
- - Habukaz   Mike Brown (and others) is rather dismissive: QUO...   Dec 10 2015, 03:51 PM
- - alan   They are making this claim based on two observatio...   Dec 10 2015, 05:41 PM
|- - JRehling   Maybe I'm missing something, but making two ob...   Dec 10 2015, 07:37 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 10 2015, 11:37 AM) ...   Dec 10 2015, 08:46 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Dec 10 2015, 01:46 PM...   Dec 11 2015, 01:11 AM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 10 2015, 07:11 PM) ...   Dec 11 2015, 01:58 AM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 10 2015, 05:11 PM) ...   Dec 11 2015, 08:46 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Dec 11 2015, 01:46 PM...   Dec 12 2015, 08:05 PM
- - antipode   I agree that the chance alignment is worrying. I h...   Dec 10 2015, 08:52 PM
- - ZLD   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Dec 10 2015, 02:46 PM...   Dec 10 2015, 09:00 PM
- - Gsnorgathon   What other instruments are there that might be abl...   Dec 10 2015, 09:22 PM
- - elakdawalla   Well, WISE has ruled out brown dwarfs within the s...   Dec 10 2015, 09:45 PM
|- - vikingmars   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 10 2015, 10:45 P...   Dec 11 2015, 10:38 AM
|- - Herobrine   QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 10 2015, 04:45 P...   Dec 11 2015, 04:48 PM
|- - JRehling   This story reached the Washington Post: https://w...   Dec 11 2015, 05:43 PM
- - scalbers   Have yet to read all the text, though if it has th...   Dec 10 2015, 10:50 PM
- - ZLD   They do address WISE and question why it would onl...   Dec 10 2015, 11:06 PM
|- - katodomo   QUOTE (ZLD @ Dec 11 2015, 12:06 AM) They ...   Dec 16 2015, 08:17 PM
- - alan   From the SciAm article: QUOTE “Normally I prefer t...   Dec 11 2015, 07:40 PM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (alan @ Dec 11 2015, 07:40 PM) Remi...   Dec 12 2015, 08:25 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (ngunn @ Dec 12 2015, 01:25 PM) The...   Dec 13 2015, 08:46 PM
- - Explorer1   Stranger things have happened: what are the chance...   Dec 13 2015, 09:42 PM
- - Spock1108   how many chances Galileo Galilei had to see Neptun...   Dec 13 2015, 10:31 PM
|- - JRehling   Yes, events occur despite the fact that the probab...   Dec 13 2015, 10:36 PM
- - ZLD   "the burden is on the researcher to vet the p...   Dec 14 2015, 02:32 AM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (ZLD @ Dec 13 2015, 07:32 PM) The i...   Dec 14 2015, 11:10 PM
- - TheAnt   I have my personal perspective on this since my wo...   Dec 15 2015, 08:12 AM
- - fredk   JRehling has already made most of the points I had...   Dec 15 2015, 07:39 PM
|- - Herobrine   QUOTE (fredk @ Dec 15 2015, 02:39 PM) The...   Dec 15 2015, 09:41 PM
|- - JRehling   QUOTE (Herobrine @ Dec 15 2015, 02:41 PM)...   Dec 16 2015, 05:23 PM
|- - Herobrine   QUOTE (JRehling @ Dec 16 2015, 12:23 PM) ...   Dec 16 2015, 10:00 PM
- - mcaplinger   Tough crowd. And I must have missed the memo that...   Dec 15 2015, 08:09 PM
- - Deimos   It is true that many implausible things happen; no...   Dec 15 2015, 08:45 PM
- - fredk   We can talk about two possibilities for the alpha ...   Dec 17 2015, 12:47 AM
- - Deimos   A Bayesian outlook is quite compatible with lotter...   Dec 17 2015, 12:53 AM
- - Mongo   Tentative planetary orbital constraints of some sc...   Dec 17 2015, 01:45 AM
- - Spock1108   I think this explanation is one of the most consis...   Dec 17 2015, 05:40 PM
- - alan   Abstract of the Alpha Centauri paper now reads: Q...   Jan 21 2016, 05:23 PM

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