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Have all the planets in are solar system been discovered?

In what ways can we verify the existence of planet X, the 10th planet? Of course the best way, that is the best accepted, would be visual verification. But are there other ways to verify the existence of another planet in our solar system? Of course there is.

No planet outside our solar system has ever been photographed. Other Jupiter-mass planets have been found around other stars, but they were detected by an indirect method that notes a gravitational wobble induced in the host star.

Some other indirect methods that have or can be used to detect the presence of another planet in our solar system are, (1) the gravitational influence or perturbations in the known planets, (2) the perturbations in some comets, (3) the newest indirect method, that I think could be the best evidence yet!

(1) A mystery revolves around the sun


Researchers suggest that huge unseen object orbits on fringe of solar system

Image: Oort Cloud

This diagram, produced by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, shows the nine planets as a small inset within the much larger Oort Cloud, extending trillions of miles out from the sun. The hypothetical planet or brown dwarf would lie about halfway out from the center of the cloud.

By Alan Boyle MSNBC

Since Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930, astronomers have searched in vain for a tenth planet. The main justification for the search was made when discrepancies in the predicted positions of the outer planets Uranus and Neptune kept cropping up with alarming regularity.

Uranus has completed over two and a half orbits since its discovery in 1741, and Neptune, discovered in 1846, has completed almost one full circuit. Both planets should have accurately determined orbits by now. And yet, variations in their predicted positions, called residuals, persist.

www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/outer_planets_991014.html

(2) Flying mountains of rock and ice


Flying mountains of rock and ice - are thought to come from the cold and dark outer reaches of the Solar System, far beyond the planets in a region called the Oort cloud.

Dr Murray has detected the tell-tale signs of a single massive object that deflected all of them into their current orbits. He told BBC News Online, "the effect is pretty conclusive. I have calculated that there is only about a one in 1,700 chance that it is due to chance."

In a research paper to be published next week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, he suggests that the so-far unseen planet is several times bigger than the largest known planet in our Solar System, Jupiter.

Some astronomers believe there may as yet be something we don't know about our own solar system -- an undiscovered planet, or feeble star, a million times further away than Pluto. The justification for their belief stems from an apparent orderly arrangement of certain comets in the sky.

In the October 11 issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr. John Murray, an astronomer from the Open University in the United Kingdom proposed that a large object in the extreme outer realms of the solar system may be gravitationally affecting the orbits of long-period comets. He theorizes that the object would have to orbit the sun 32,000 times farther away than Earth (about 3 trillion miles) and would have to be at least as massive as Jupiter, if not more so. Given its distance, it would also be extremely faint and slow moving.

In other research, a professor of physics at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Dr. John J. Matese, is making a case for the existence of a 2- to 3-Jupiter mass object orbiting some 2.3 trillion miles from the sun. In a paper soon to be published in the planetary journal, Icarus, Dr. Matese asserts that this object, too, has created a "concentration" of Oort cloud comets and is responsible for sending a significant number of them - perhaps as much as 25 percent - into the inner solar system.

None of this speculation would be possible if it weren't for a family of billions of comets that hardly ever divert into the inner solar system. Known as long-period comets, these gravelly, mountainous icebergs are thought to inhabit a vast sphere known as the Oort cloud, which surrounds the solar system between 900 billion and 4.5 trillion miles from the sun.

The intrusive gravity of some massive object could disturb these objects like a fat man diving into a school of fish, sending them off into other orbits. But the question of what disturbs them and why some of them appear to be regularly distributed like foam in the crest of a standing wave still remains.

Murray's research suggests that the some of the incoming comets include a group coming from directions in space that are aligned in an arc across the sky. This arc, he asserts, could mark the wake of some large body moving through space in the outer part of the Oort cloud. A similar theme arises in Dr. Matese's research. His study of 82 Oort cloud comets indicates that approximately 25 percent of these have an "anomalous distribution" in the sky that can best be understood if there exits some perturbing force in the Oort cloud, i.e., a large, as yet undetected, body.

Dr. Matese's theory focuses on different aspects of long-period comet orbits, but nevertheless begs the question: could the darkest corner of our solar system harbor a tenth planet or a brown dwarf? A brown dwarf, he contends, would not have been detected in the previous infrared searches, such as the one conducted by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in the early 1980s, because the alleged planet/brown dwarf is too near the galactic plane. To ferret out such an object in that busy IR region requires greater sensitivity than IRAS possessed at the time.

For now, it seems the mysteries of the remote solar system will remain largely hidden, as will the truth about whatever exists out there. Perhaps more telling is the fact that astronomers still don't know everything there is to know about our solar neighborhood. That may change with the advent of a new generation infrared searches of bodies in the outer solar system. If a large warm planet or brown dwarf is skulking about stirring up comets, astronomers will find it.

www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/467572.stm

www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/outer_planets_991014.html

(3) The other indirect method of showing that a brown dwarf or 10th planet exists in our solar system is the existence of the 11th planet! As we have shown on this web site, there is a lot of indirect evidence to show that Earth Is a binary orbit system. The way earth came to be in a binary orbit around the sun, is directly related to the 10th planet. Therefore, the 11th planet is the evidence that the 10th planet exists in our solar system.

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Other references on finding more members of our solar system and brown dwarfs.

www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2003/pr-01-03.html

www.science-frontiers.com/sf025/sf025p03.htm

www.msnbc.com/news/320182.asp?cp1=1

www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/brown_dwarf_power_010314.html?Enews=y

www.csmonitor.com/2003/0124/p25s03-stss.htm

 

Coming soon, Earths water and the formation of worlds around a brown dwarf.


 
   
 

Coming soon, Earths water and the formation of worlds around a brown dwarf.