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| This article appeared in "The SUN" on March 12th, 2010 (the "?" is added) |
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11 March 2010 - Scientists at NASA say: AN invisible star may be circling our Sun
and causing deadly comets to bombard the Earth:
- The invisible star .... a brown dwarf - up to five times the size of Jupiter - could be to blame for mass extinctions that occur here every 26 million years.
- The star - nicknamed Nemesis by Nasa scientists - would be invisible as it only emits infrared light and is incredibly distant.
- Nemesis is believed to orbit our solar system at 25,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun.
- As it spins through the galaxy, its gravitational pull drags icy bodies out of the Oort Cloud - a vast sphere of rock and dust twice as far away as Nemesis.
- These "snowballs" are thrown towards Earth as comets, causing devastation similar to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
- Now Nasa believes they will be able to find Nemesis using a new heat-seeking telescope that began scanning the skies in January.
- The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer - expected to find a thousand brown dwarfs within 25 light years of the Sun - has already sent back a photo of a comet possibly dislodged from the Oort Cloud.
- Scientists' first clue to the existence of Nemesis was the bizarre orbit of a dwarf planet called Sedna... and believe its unusual, 12,000-year-long oval orbit could be explained by a massive celestial body.
- Mike Brown, who discovered Sedna in 2003, said: "Sedna is a very odd object - it shouldn't be there.
- "The only way to get on an eccentric orbit is to have some giant body kick you - so what is out there?"
- Professor John Matese, of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said most comets come from the same part of the Oort Cloud... adding this: "There is statistically significant evidence that this concentration of comets could be caused by a companion to the Sun."
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| Click Image To Enlarge: Sedna's Diameter |
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| Click Image To Enlarge: Kuiper Belt (outer planetary orbits) & Oort Cloud Comets |
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| Click Image To Enlarge: Sedna among largest known Kuiper Belt bodies |
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| Click Image To Enlarge: Earth & relative size of asteroids/outer bodies |
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- The "Solar System" is apparently a very busy place ... and getting busier.
- More Earthquakes (the USGS says all is unconnected and perfectly normal)
- And ... Sedna has a very eccentric orbit and just "shouldn't be where it is"
- The Sun's "BROWN Dwarf Twin" ... is this Planet "X" ... does "Nibiru" in fact orbit this Brown Dwarf and "accompany it" on its long journey around our Sun; causing periodic havoc to Planet Earth and "anomalies" to Pluto and the Inner Solar System?
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| Gliese and its Brown Star Companion: Click Image To Enlarge |
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| The Solar System Just Got A Bit Bigger: Click Image To Enlarge |
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| Click Image To Enlarge: Size comparison between out SUN , Gliese, Brown Dwarfs, & Jupiter |
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| and then there was ..... APOPHIS |
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| Just "FYI": Apophis on July 14, 2013 (Click Image To Enlarge) |
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| Apophis: 14 Dec 2012 (Click Image To Enlarge) |
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| Apophis: 14 Jan 2013 (Click Image To Enlarge) |
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- Asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004.
- The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields.
- Initially, Apophis was thought to have a 2.7 percent chance of impacting Earth in 2029. Additional observations of the asteroid ruled out any possibility of an impact in 2029.
- However, the asteroid is expected to make a record-setting -- but harmless -- close approach to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, when it comes no closer than 18,300 miles above Earth's surface.
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| Click To Enlarge: Apophis... underneath which is the Earth |
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Apophis on 13 April 2029: 28º Libra 16'
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