The Astronomy Thread
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iannis
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I'm fairly sure their orbits are further out than pluto.
I did read a thing I barely remember that we may have planets orbiting past the past the oort cloud. Captures which account for comets, but don't have a discernable impact on the orbits of our named planets.
I did read a thing I barely remember that we may have planets orbiting past the past the oort cloud. Captures which account for comets, but don't have a discernable impact on the orbits of our named planets.
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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Araxen
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I watched some YouTube video that said there should be a 9/10th planet. I guess just like Neptune, there is math that predicts there is one. We just haven't found it yet.
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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I imagine the math only suggests there is one; if a large planet is out there and we had an accurate location, we'd find it. If it is actually so far out there that we COULDN'T find it (ie Oort cloud) it also wouldn't be possible to use math to determine where it is.
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Siddar
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Likely the heat is generated by the planets themselves and not derived from the star.
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Tholan
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went last saturday to try and check it. Damn I'm bad at this, took me half a bilion tries to focus my damn camera, couldn't see shit in the dark and every time I searched something with my torchlight I went blind for half an hour. Plus it was fucking 5°C. And I couldnt find my tripod so I had to use a 20$ one that was probably made by someone who had parkinson. Pretty sure the cows were laughing at us.
Fun times however, it's not something you see everyday.
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Cybsled
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If it had a wonky orbit like Pluto, but much farther out, that would no doubt make it much harder to find. Especially if it had some type of wacky super orbital time measured in millennia. Pluto takes centuries to complete 1 orbit.
Brahma
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Looking forward to watching this w/ my dad. We watched the launch, was a great way to take time out from The Mess.
arstechnica.com
NASA, SpaceX preparing to bring Crew Dragon home this week
So far, this test flight has been a great success.
arstechnica.com
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Cybsled
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For it to be so dead that it is a black dwarf seems off...you’re talking a white dwarf that totally burned out already, but our sun is still main sequence? A large planet that got flung into an odd orbit early in the solar systems history seems more likely.
Mudcrush Durtfeet
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moonarchia
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Merrith
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I thought i had read somewhere it could be a large planet, but with an orbit that could be somewhere between 150-300 AU (for ref, Neptune is 30 AU and Pluto at its furthest is just under 50 AU). That would be fairly difficult to find I would assume.