FuckOff wrote:
De gamla babylonerna visste mycket väl om vart alla planeter i solsystemet finns. Inklusive uranus, neptunus och pluto. Dessa är inte synliga utan instrument och de påstår att det finns en planet X, en stor fet jävel som rör sig som en komet, dvs, en elips med en omloppsbana på 32000 år.

zpz2 wrote:
hehehe.. det kan inte bli mycket mer Vaken än detta

SHYGETS inlägg borde ju användas i "infopaketet" som tydligen skall skickas ut, så att folk inser vilka banbrytande visdomar de missat.

Mini wrote:
när ska denna planet komma förbi här nästa gång då?

zpz2 wrote:
Det finns ingen seriös astronom som tror på att det finns nån stor "planet X" med 3600 år omloppsbana. Man har letat så mycket att man sannolikt skulle hittat den om den var någorlunda stor.

Dessutom finns det många andra orsaker till varför det inte är sannolikt..

T.ex.
"However, scientists argue that a planet with such an orbit would eventually either develop a circular orbit or fly off into space and overwhelmingly consider Sitchin's claims to be pseudoscience."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_%28hypothetical_planet%29

EttHund wrote:
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zpz2 wrote:
Det finns ingen seriös astronom som tror på att det finns nån stor "planet X" med 3600 år omloppsbana. Man har letat så mycket att man sannolikt skulle hittat den om den var någorlunda stor.

Dessutom finns det många andra orsaker till varför det inte är sannolikt..

T.ex.
"However, scientists argue that a planet with such an orbit would eventually either develop a circular orbit or fly off into space and overwhelmingly consider Sitchin's claims to be pseudoscience."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_x
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_%28hypothetical_planet%29

Astronomers detect '10th planet'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4730061.stm

Is Nibiru Approaching?
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa021102a.htm
"Even mainstream astronomers have long speculated that there may be an unknown planet - a Planet X - somewhere out beyond the orbit of Pluto that would account for the anomalies they were detecting in the orbits of Neptune and Uranus. Some unseen body seems to be tugging at them. The finding was reported in the June 19, 1982 edition of the New York Times:

Something out there beyond the furthest reaches of the known solar system is tugging at Uranus and Neptune. A gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object, the long-sought Planet X. Astronomers are so certain of this planet's existence that they have already named it "Planet X - the 10th Planet."

Mini wrote:
visa texten där någon serijös astronom avfärdar allt om "planet X" eller Niburu...

Och det ska INTE va nån från wikipedia!

Denna planet ska ha en omlopsbana på 3600år så den i den länken är ju då en nån annan liten "sten"..

My name is Philip Plait and I work at the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University, a member of the California State University system. The campus is about 60 kilometers north of San Francisco. I am currently working on a NASA-sponsored public outreach program for a satellite named GLAST (Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope). I just started this job in December of 2000 and I am very excited to be a part of such a great program to educate people about high-energy astronomy.

Lightsaber wrote:

En åsikt som emellertid inte delades av de amerikanska astronomer som inte deltog. Den amerikanska rymdstyrelsen NASA har skickat en satellit mot Pluto och dr Alan Stern som leder projektet sade att "beslutet att avföra Pluto från planetlistan var fruktansvärt och exempel på urusel vetenskap." Han och likasinnade ska nu arbeta för att Pluto ska få tillbaka sin forna status.

While there is no proof for the accusation in the title above, three leading American planetary scientists told me last week that they keenly sensed a strong anti-American component in the IAU vote. Two of the three attended at least part of the IAU General Assembly in Prague, and one was present for the decisive vote. These astronomers, who do not wish to be named for fear of backlash, charge that at least some of the astronomers used the Pluto vote as a way to "stick it" to the United States for its perceived domination of the IAU in past years, and to protest the invasion of Iraq.

But another distinguished American planetary scientist who was also in Prague adamantly denied the anti-American accusation when I spoke to him last week, and he expressed confidence that the assembled astronomers based their votes on the merits of the scientific arguments. He suggests that some of astronomers in the pro-Pluto camp are using this claim of anti-American bias to further their agenda. It should also be noted that some of the astronomers who have led the effort to downgrade Pluto’s planetary status were Americans, perhaps the most outspoken being Neil deGrasse Tyson of New York’s Rose Center for Earth and Space.

It’s no secret that Pluto was discovered by an American astronomer, and the same can be said for 2003 UB313 (informally known as Xena), the trans-Neptunian object (TNO) that is larger than Pluto. Most of the deep surveys that will turn up additional TNOs are being conducted by US-based astronomers, so if more planet-size bodies are discovered in the outer solar system, they will be found mostly by Americans. The majority of astronomers who study Pluto also happen to be Americans, and the New Horizons mission to explore Pluto is a NASA mission with mostly Americans on its science team.

For these reasons, it can safely be said that American astronomers have a lot more at stake than many of their international counterparts in maintaining Pluto’s status as a full-fledged planet.