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Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto

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reber g=emc^2 <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 at 12:13:37 PM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto
>> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strong-evidence-suggests-a-super-earth-lies-beyond-pluto1/
>> 
>> 
>> > "New Planet Found" is about as exciting a headline nowadays as "Dog
>> > Bites Man," which is to say, not very. Thanks largely to the
>> > space-based Kepler Mission, astronomers have identified about 2,000
>> > new worlds, orbiting stars that lie tens or even hundreds of
>> > light-years from Earth, in the last two decades. Collectively, these
>> > are scientifically important, but with so many in hand no single
>> > addition to the list is likely to be much of a big deal. But a new
>> > planet announcement today from the California Institute of Technology
>> > is a very different proposition, because the world it describes does
>> > not circle a distant star. It is part of our own solar system--a place
>> > you would think we had explored pretty well by now.
>> >
>> > Evidently not: in an analysis accepted for publication at The
>> > Astronomical Journal, California Institute of Technology planetary
>> > scientists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown present what they say is
>> > strong circumstantial evidence for a very large undiscovered planet,
>> > perhaps 10 times as massive as Earth, orbiting in the solar system's
>> > outer darkness beyond Pluto. The scientists infer its presence from
>> > anomalies in the orbits of a handful of smaller bodies they can see.
>> > "I haven't been this excited about something in quite a while," says
>> > Greg Laughlin, an expert on planet formation and dynamics at the
>> > University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the
>> > research.
>> 
>> 
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> Lets hope its a rock planet,and has water ice 500 miles deep.Its core could be its great heat??  Water Heat and Dust and you have clams  TreBert

Sweet Potato Clam Chowder with Bacon

http://catcora.com/recipes/soups/sweet-potato-clam-chowder-bacon/


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Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 14:13 -0600
  Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 12:32 -0800
    Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-20 21:02 +0000
      Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-01-22 13:04 -0800
        Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-01-22 14:36 -0800
        Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto benj <none@gmail.com> - 2016-01-23 02:33 -0500
    Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-01-20 21:05 +0000
      Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-01-20 13:34 -0800
    Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-01-22 18:43 -0500
  Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 17:25 -0800
    Re: Strong Evidence Suggests a Super Earth Lies beyond Pluto The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-01-21 22:52 -0800

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