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Planet X? New Evidence of an Unseen Planet at Solar System’s Edge
Image: This artist’s conception illustrates a giant planet floating freely without a parent star. Astronomers recently uncovered evidence for such lone worlds, thought to have been booted from developing star systems. The sun may have captured such a planet, which new work shows may reside at the edge of the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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A planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system beyond Pluto, according to new research. Too distant to be easily spotted by Earth-based telescopes, the unseen planet could be gravitationally tugging on small icy objects past Neptune, helping explain the mystery of those objects’ peculiar orbits.
The claim comes from Rodney Gomes, a noted astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Gomes presented his recently completed computer models suggesting the existence of the distant planet at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Ore., earlier this month.
Astronomers who attended the talk find Gomes’ arguments compelling, but they say much more evidence is needed before the hypothetical planet can be crowned as real.
For several years, astronomers have observed that a handful of the small icy bodies that lie in the so-called “scattered disc” beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune, including the dwarf planet Sedna, deviate from the paths around the sun that would be expected based on the gravitational pulls of all the known objects in the solar system.
Sedna, for example, swings around the sun in an extremely elongated orbit — tracing out a very long oval. “Sedna’s orbit is truly peculiar,” said Mike Brown, an astronomer at Caltech who led the team that discovered Sedna in 2003.
However, when Gomes ran the same calculations with the addition of the gravitational pull of a massive planet at the outskirts of the solar system, Sedna and the other anomalous objects’ expected orbits fell in line with observations. The unseen planet would be too far away to perceptibly perturb the motions of Earth and the other inner planets, but close enough to the scattered disc objects to sway them.
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Planet X? New Evidence of an Unseen Planet at Solar System’s Edge
Image: This artist’s conception illustrates a giant planet floating freely without a parent star. Astronomers recently uncovered evidence for such lone worlds, thought to have been booted from developing star systems. The sun may have captured such a planet, which new work shows may reside at the edge of the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Warning: Approach Article With Skepticism
A planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system beyond Pluto, according to new research. Too distant to be easily spotted by Earth-based telescopes, the unseen planet could be gravitationally tugging on small icy objects past Neptune, helping explain the mystery of those objects’ peculiar orbits.
The claim comes from Rodney Gomes, a noted astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Gomes presented his recently completed computer models suggesting the existence of the distant planet at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Ore., earlier this month.
Astronomers who attended the talk find Gomes’ arguments compelling, but they say much more evidence is needed before the hypothetical planet can be crowned as real.
For several years, astronomers have observed that a handful of the small icy bodies that lie in the so-called “scattered disc” beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune, including the dwarf planet Sedna, deviate from the paths around the sun that would be expected based on the gravitational pulls of all the known objects in the solar system.
Sedna, for example, swings around the sun in an extremely elongated orbit — tracing out a very long oval. “Sedna’s orbit is truly peculiar,” said Mike Brown, an astronomer at Caltech who led the team that discovered Sedna in 2003.
However, when Gomes ran the same calculations with the addition of the gravitational pull of a massive planet at the outskirts of the solar system, Sedna and the other anomalous objects’ expected orbits fell in line with observations. The unseen planet would be too far away to perceptibly perturb the motions of Earth and the other inner planets, but close enough to the scattered disc objects to sway them.
Similar Stories: [The True Stories of 5 Mystery Planets]
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well, let me help you with that. you might have watched the avengers and thought, “hey this seems like a cool and dandy ship. let me get on this.” you might follow someone who ships them and you want to understand what it’s all about. whatever made attracted to the ship doesn’t matter, but here are some sites and resources you can use to further your shipping.
The New Captain America/Iron Man Slashy Moments List
exactly what it sounds like. canon comic events that display “slashy” moments between our favorite super husbands.
Tales of Suspense featuring Captain America and Iron Man
a site that has Avengers fanfic that focuses on Steve and Tony, also includes: art, icons, and other steve/tony things.
the livejournal community that is all steve/tony. fanfiction, fanvids, icons, fan art, all the works for your shipping needs.
the focus isn’t on steve/tony but you’ll find some good steve/tony fics in the mix.
a blog dedicated to comic scans of our two favorite guys.
Now for those of you courageous enough to consider reading the comics. I can also help you there.
Iron Man
iron man part 1: tales of suspense 39-99, iron man and sub-mariner, and iron man 1-100
iron man part 2: iron man 101-200, iron man annuals, and iron man 86-87
iron man part 3: iron man 201-332
iron man part 4: iron man v2, v3, v4 1-12Captain America
captain america part 1: tales of suspense 59-99, captain america 100-200, and captain america annuals
captain america part 2: captain america 201-300
captain america part 3: captain america 301-400
captain america part 4: captain america v1 401-454, captain america v2, v3, v4 and captain america v5 1-25Avengers
marvel avengers 1: Avengers v1 001-100 and Avengers Annuals
marvel avengers 2: Avengers v1 101-200
marvel avengers 3: Avengers v1 201-300
marvel avengers 4: Avengers v1 301-402
marvel avengers 5: Avengers v2 , Avengers v3, Avengers 500-503 (Disassembled), and New Avengers 1-12Civil War (because this is what sold me on steve/tony)
Lastly (a disgusting act of shameless self promotion), a steve/tony rec list with, what I believe to be, some of the best works of fanfiction written in the fandom.
I hope this helps.
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