Post by thyarchery on Jun 4, 2015 20:56:39 GMT
Well my personal idea is that it sounds fake. It doesn't even give any basic data about that planet (i. e. its mass, size or its velocity) that may give credibility to some of the stuff said on the paper-for example, the planet's gravity counteracting the sun's. Another thing that looks extremely suspicious is that "it's scheduled to leave our solar system on September 26th" Hell no. A planet cannot leave a solar system-that's why it's called "a planet". Barely any astral object can leave a solar system, because the stars' mass is too high for them to drift far enough to counteract it. And if it's a real planet, with its own atmosphere and enough gravity to counter act the sun's, then there's no possible way meteorites rain all over the Earth because they just cannot leave the planet itself, just as nothing that is naturally expelled from Earth-like, for example, rocks in a volcano eruption- cannot leave Earth. And the most strange of it all is that, at a solar system scale, almost all the movements-and certainly all of things with such mass- are periodical; which, would mean, we would have had had news from that planet thousand of years ago, just like we have it from comets, like Halley's. Probably Jenda can prove me wrong or enhance this arguments, but from an engineer point of view, that's how things work.
There's, yet, another possibility; and it's that this planet somehow has strayed from its original solar system at a very high speed-because...explosion of its star? dunno- and effectively, it's storming through the universe. In that (extremely rare) case, I suppose that:
1st) due to the lack of friction in Space, it would keep a constant speed. This speed should be very, VERY high so it kept the planet from precipitating against big spacial masses-namely, the sun- I don't know shit about speed rates in space, but I guess that this planet is effectively traveling very fast from the data we have (passes near Earth on August 17th-leaves the solar system scarcely a month after) If the planet travels that fast, then WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SEE IT. All the pictures and the photographs just couldn't be taken.
2nd) Lets suppose that its speed is enough to keep it from falling into the sun but not enough to keep it from spinning around it, as all the other astral entities. Like, the sun just curves away its trajectory. Then it should moving into something that would be sort of a spiral evolving towards its outside, and it would be on one of this turns that it will pass near the Earth. Well, in that case, I suppose that it should pass relatively near at least one more time-to keep up with the speed rate that has been mentioned-and we would notice it in a very simple way; the tides. If an object as relatively small and slow as the Moon can make the waters swift so dramatically, just imagine a true planet moving at an incredible velocity. We're jet to see any significant aberration in tidal flows.
I might be wrong, but all my scientific knowledge tells me this is false.
There's, yet, another possibility; and it's that this planet somehow has strayed from its original solar system at a very high speed-because...explosion of its star? dunno- and effectively, it's storming through the universe. In that (extremely rare) case, I suppose that:
1st) due to the lack of friction in Space, it would keep a constant speed. This speed should be very, VERY high so it kept the planet from precipitating against big spacial masses-namely, the sun- I don't know shit about speed rates in space, but I guess that this planet is effectively traveling very fast from the data we have (passes near Earth on August 17th-leaves the solar system scarcely a month after) If the planet travels that fast, then WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SEE IT. All the pictures and the photographs just couldn't be taken.
2nd) Lets suppose that its speed is enough to keep it from falling into the sun but not enough to keep it from spinning around it, as all the other astral entities. Like, the sun just curves away its trajectory. Then it should moving into something that would be sort of a spiral evolving towards its outside, and it would be on one of this turns that it will pass near the Earth. Well, in that case, I suppose that it should pass relatively near at least one more time-to keep up with the speed rate that has been mentioned-and we would notice it in a very simple way; the tides. If an object as relatively small and slow as the Moon can make the waters swift so dramatically, just imagine a true planet moving at an incredible velocity. We're jet to see any significant aberration in tidal flows.
I might be wrong, but all my scientific knowledge tells me this is false.