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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

Then we would have to worry about being invaded by space clams determined
to steal all our Mexican sweet potatoes.


-- 
Jim Pennino

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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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