asteroid narrowly misses earth

Johnnny

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your talking about Eris? Im not sure what websites your reading but the orbit of this planet Eris may be eccentric but it doesnt come anywhere close to the distance we orbit from our sun. Its orbit alone if its lucky comes the closest to pluto.....
 

Angstrom

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your talking about Eris? Im not sure what websites your reading but the orbit of this planet Eris may be eccentric but it doesnt come anywhere close to the distance we orbit from our sun. Its orbit alone if its lucky comes the closest to pluto.....

No its planet Xeno/nibirus
 

Tonington

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2003 UB313 or Eris and Planet X are not the same thing. The orbit of Eris doesn't bring it near Earth at all.


It's not even as large as our moon.
 

Angstrom

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I don't think I'd really want to know if we're going to be smacked into oblivion.... Where do you go to get away?


Watch that whole 12 part youtube link I posted. Lots of good info about that.
He only talks about survival at the end though.
 

Dexter Sinister

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There is no Planet X, or Nibiru, or whatever you want to call it, there's no evidence it exists, there's no sign it's ever been here, all purported photos of it are fakes or misinterpretations, all purported official announcements of it from NASA are misunderstandings or quote mining or some type of fakery, the thing does not exist.

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions: The Planet X Arguments in a Nutshell
 

Ariadne

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Sooooooo ... more than 6 solid months of snow like last year? When is this other planet supposed to orbit closest ... I skimmed the thread and didn't see the date. If this planet or "asteroid" is not orbitting with our sun, what's it doing?
 

Dexter Sinister

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It's busy not existing.

Planet X has a gravity independent of our sun, I think.
Every other body in the cosmos does, no reason why it wouldn't, if it exists, but it doesn't.
It passes every 3600 years. Its getting close to us now again..
No, and no. Any object as big as this thing is supposed to be that's within a decade of entering the inner solar system would be clearly visible by now. If it had ever been through this neighbourhood before, planetary orbits would be seriously deranged and there'd be signs of enormous devastation and mass extinctions at every passage, but there are no such signs and the earth is moving in a nearly perfectly circular orbit, just as it has for billions of years. You have been deceived by quacks and charlatans, and how they did it is obvious from your first sentence: you don't know enough of the basic physics involved to recognize their nonsense as nonsense.
 

Angstrom

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It's busy not existing.

Every other body in the cosmos does, no reason why it wouldn't, if it exists, but it doesn't. No, and no. Any object as big as this thing is supposed to be that's within a decade of entering the inner solar system would be clearly visible by now. If it had ever been through this neighbourhood before, planetary orbits would be seriously deranged and there'd be signs of enormous devastation and mass extinctions at every passage, but there are no such signs and the earth is moving in a nearly perfectly circular orbit, just as it has for billions of years. You have been deceived by quacks and charlatans, and how they did it is obvious from your first sentence: you don't know enough of the basic physics involved to recognize their nonsense as nonsense.

Relax doc. LoL. I just find it strange that they are spending billions on moving everything in-land.
I don't care what could be the cause, that its a planet or not, something looks like is up. Lay off the stimulants lol.

Even if there was no planet. Even if it was nothing. If there was something they would never tell us anyways.
 
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Dexter Sinister

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Even if there was no planet. Even if it was nothing. If there was something they would never tell us anyways.
Who's "they?" There are at least tens, possibly hundreds, of thousands of amateur sky watchers all over the planet (4200 in Canada alone), if this thing were out there you can be confident it would have been spotted by now. If the usual claims made for it were true, it'd have to be currently no farther away than between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, and one of the brightest objects in the sky, "they" could hardly prevent us from finding out about it. Anyone with a star chart could spot it from his back yard. I'm not on any stimulants, it just seems odd to me that you don't appear to care that you believe something that's palpably untrue.