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'Niku' found orbiting beyond Neptune.
There's a mysterious object doing a crazy loop around our solar system,
but scientists have no idea what it is: "Niku orbits the solar system at a bizarre angle: a plane tilted 110 degrees to the flat plane of the solar system. This flat plane - a disk in which planets move around the sun - is a defining quality of a planetary system. But Niku, already moving above the plane, travels a little further upward every day. And unlike the other law-abiding objects in the solar system, Niku travels against the flow of the bulk of the solar system, taking a wild backward swing around the sun. Objects that don't move within the plane of the solar system or spin in the opposite direction must have been shoved off course by something else or tugged by the gravity of another object. "It suggests that there's more going on in the outer solar system than we're fully aware of," Matthew Holman at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, part of the team that discovered Niku, told New Scientist, where we first saw the story." See: https://amp.businessinsider.com/niku...neptune-2016-8 |
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'Niku' found orbiting beyond Neptune.
And unlike the other law-abiding objects in the solar system, Niku travels against the flow of the bulk of the solar system, taking a wild backward swing around the sun. Dammit, they've found my ship! I thought putting it way out of the ecliptic and making it retrograde would hide it well enough for it to have stayed hidden more than a few centuries. Now I'm going to have to move it... fred please get on your ship and go back home, or anywhere else without internet access |
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'Niku' found orbiting beyond Neptune.
bob haller wrote:
And unlike the other law-abiding objects in the solar system, Niku travels against the flow of the bulk of the solar system, taking a wild backward swing around the sun. Dammit, they've found my ship! I thought putting it way out of the ecliptic and making it retrograde would hide it well enough for it to have stayed hidden more than a few centuries. Now I'm going to have to move it... fred please get on your ship and go back home, or anywhere else without internet access Bobbert, please rent a clue and have someone show you how to operate it. -- "Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is only stupid." -- Heinrich Heine |
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'Niku' found orbiting beyond Neptune.
From the article in the original post:
"Scientists noticed that rebel Niku seems to be hanging around a gang of other strangely aligned objects. At first glance, the scientists thought that this might suggest that Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet that would be about as much as 10 times as massive as Earth, might be pulling on the objects. But it turns out that the rebellious object would be out of Planet Nine's reach, too free-living to succumb to the undiscovered planet's gravitational attraction. So exactly what's going on is still a mystery." So, does mean there there could be a Planet 10 (& 11, 12 ..... ?) out there? |
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'Niku' found orbiting beyond Neptune.
"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
... wrote: There's a mysterious object doing a crazy loop around our solar system, but scientists have no idea what it is: "Niku orbits the solar system at a bizarre angle: a plane tilted 110 degrees to the flat plane of the solar system. This flat plane - a disk in which planets move around the sun - is a defining quality of a planetary system. But Niku, already moving above the plane, travels a little further upward every day. And unlike the other law-abiding objects in the solar system, Niku travels against the flow of the bulk of the solar system, taking a wild backward swing around the sun. Dammit, they've found my ship! I thought putting it way out of the ecliptic and making it retrograde would hide it well enough for it to have stayed hidden more than a few centuries. Now I'm going to have to move it... Don't worry. Mook can design a spacesuit ship that will run on unobtonium and get you there in 2 days. -- Greg D. Moore http://greenmountainsoftware.wordpress.com/ CEO QuiCR: Quick, Crowdsourced Responses. http://www.quicr.net |
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