Astronomers at Australia's Royal Observatory assisted John Murray in the astronomical equivalent of the hunt for the White Whale. Murray believes that there is a tenth planet that's a thousand more times further than Pluto is. It may be as much as 10 times more massive than Jupiter that's if it exists.
Murray believes he has a good reason to believe that there is a tenth planet. He first started to believe it when he was studying comets and suddenly noticed that an improbable large number of them top out at about the same distance from the sun, roughly 3 trillion to 4.5 trillion miles away. Murray found their motions to be even more peculiar when he zeroed in on the 13 comets with the most accurately established orbits. "They all aligned along a band, as would be expected if they had been perturbed by some large body. The odds of this happening by chance are 1,700 to one, he says."(Pg. 76).
Murray worked backwards from the 13 orbits and tracked Planet X to a region of the sky centered on the time constellation Delphinus, located in the northern sky. In a single snapshot, the telescope took in 40 square degrees of sky and at least 100,000 stars. One could be planet X. Murray hopes to match one of the stars with a picture that was taken six months earlier. He is also comparing the movements.
So far the search has got nothing. Planet X is too faint to find even with the UK Schmidt Telescope. Murray still keeps busy with his full-time work. They are still going to take a few more pictures and see what they can find.
Not everyone agrees with Murray. Harold Levison admits that Earth-sized planets could be floating undetected in the Oort cloud, but he doubts anything as big as Jupiter is out there. .
From 1908 until his death, Percival Lowell, an aristocrat engaged in a search for Planet X, whose gravitational bug could account for discrepancies in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930.
Planet Earth by P. ... It has to be spread out, the skin of this planet. ... It has to be made bright, the skin of this planet till it shines in the sun like gold leaf. ... Page's poem "Planet Earth" for Dialogue Poetry. ... Page's poem 'Planet Earth' be read throughout the world as a message of peace. ...
Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and orbits the sun at a distance of 141 million miles. ... Mars is a relatively small planet, with about half the diameter of Earth and about one-tenth Earth's mass. ... Astronomers use it to study the weather on the planet. ... No spacecraft has ever brought instruments that can study Mars's interior to the planet. ... Sometimes covering the entire planet in the storm. ...
To look at it in another way, the number of people on this planet is presently increasing by about 170 people per minute. ... If each of those children have ten children and has to divide his land equally that means that they get only one tenth of the land that their grandfather had. The children with one tenth of the land will have a much harder time to make ends meet, as they won't have as much land and they will not be able to produce enough food for their family. ...
Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun, is the second largest of nine planets and one of the most interesting in our Solar System. ... Saturn is one of the outer planets, located between Jupiter and Uranus. ... The Giant or Gas planets do not have the same layered structure that the terrestrial planets do, they have less solid material. ... The swirls are a series of storms on the planet's surface. ... The D Ring is exceedingly faint and closest to the planet. ...
The tenth, containing most of the building supplies, will land in the middle and serve as the construction and storage center. ... The water system will be built out of the steel siding of the tenth shuttlecraft, with filtration units and hydroelectric energy collectors every few meters, and will span about 100 meters between the nearest glacier and the biodome. ... For the future generations of our species, the technologies we brought along can be expanded to serve the growing population, and possibly to begin a whole-planet Terraforming project. ...
Have you ever wondered if we are truly alone in the Universe? The discovery of other intelligent life in the Universe would be the most important event in human history. For several hundreds of years, people have observed strange objects in the night sky, some of which are nothing more than...
Coral reefs are the largest biological structures on the planet, with the largest being the Great Barrier Reef covering over 2000 kilometers along the east coast of Australia (Focus, 1995). ... Coral reefs yield approximately one-tenth of all fish caught for human consumption, or around 4 to 8 billion tons annually (Futurists, 1993). ... Ultimately, it is as much a question of whether we save or destroy the planet as it is a question of whether we save or destroy the world's reef. ...
