Re: [meteorite-list] Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

2016-01-20 Thread Count Deiro via Meteorite-list
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[meteorite-list] Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

2016-01-20 Thread Ron Baalke via Meteorite-list
http://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-researchers-find-evidence-real-ninth-planet-49523 Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet Caltech January 20, 2016 Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system.

Re: [meteorite-list] Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet

2016-01-20 Thread Larry Lebofsky via Meteorite-list
Everyone: At the time that Pluto was being "reclassified," Hal Levinson from SWRI produced a figure that shows the mass that is need to "clear one's orbit" at any given distance from the Sun. This can be due to either accretion or scattering of objects. At Pluto's distance of 40 AU, an