Two more planets in our Solar System, say astronomers

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I think it pretty funny that we do not yet even know the reality of the make-up of our own solar system yet - "at least two more planets, and maybe more". We may find out that there is a really big "blackun" out there yet. We of Earth are going full-guns trying to find other planets around other stars, and we still do not even know the complete planet make-up or our own system!!! Aren't we good???

This is an interesting article, and I do wonder where this will now lead us to even more knowledge of our solar system make-up?

Paris (AFP) - The Solar System has at least two more planets waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British astronomers say.

The official list of planets in our star system runs to eight, with gas giant Neptune the outermost.

Beyond Neptune, Pluto was relegated to the status of "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, although it is still championed by some as the most distant planet from the Sun.

In a study published in the latest issue of the British journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers propose that "at least two" planets lie beyond Pluto.

More: http://news.yahoo.com/two-more-planets-solar-system-astronomers-134043845.html

[zorgon]

It's like finding a needle in a haystack But they find them by fluctuations in gravity.  A Nibiru size planet would make big waves

[SerpUkhovian]

Two new planets?  This is going to throw numerology into a conniption fit.

[rdunk]

Another article on this OP subject, but it does get into a little more detail, including the real possibility of a "Planet X" type object being one of the theoretical explanations for some of what they see happening way out there.

Space.com By Mike WallPublished January 20, 2015

"Planet X" might actually exist — and so might "Planet Y."

At least two planets larger than Earth likely lurk in the dark depths of space far beyond Pluto, just waiting to be discovered, a new analysis of the orbits of "extreme trans-Neptunian objects" (ETNOs) suggests.

Researchers studied 13 ETNOs — frigid bodies such as the dwarf planet Sedna that cruise around the sun at great distances in elliptical paths. [Meet Our Solar System's Dwarf Planets]

Theory predicts a certain set of details for ETNO orbits, study team members said. For example, they should have a semi-major axis, or average distance from the sun, of about 150 astronomical units (AU). (1 AU is the distance from Earth to the sun — roughly 93 million miles). These orbits should also have an inclination, relative to the plane of the solar system, of almost 0 degrees, among other characteristics.

But the actual orbits of the 13 ETNOs are quite different, with semi-major axes ranging from 150 to 525 AU and average inclinations of about 20 degrees.

"This excess of objects with unexpected orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are altering the distribution of the orbital elements of the ETNOs, and we consider that the most probable explanation is that other unknown planets exist beyond Neptune and Pluto," lead author Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, of the Complutense University of Madrid, said in a statement.

"The exact number is uncertain, given that the data that we have is limited, but our calculations suggest that there are at least two planets, and probably more, within the confines of our solar system," he added.

The potential undiscovered worlds would be more massive than Earth, researchers said, and would lie about 200 AU or more from the sun — so far away that they'd be very difficult, if not impossible, to spot with current instruments.

The new results — detailed in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters — aren't the first to lend credence to the possible existence of a so-called Planet X.


More: http://www.space.com/28284-planet-x-worlds-beyond-pluto.html

[zorgon]

Planet X is just the next undiscovered Planet  Pluto was the first Planet X 

In 1906, Percival Lowell—a wealthy Bostonian who had founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1894—started an extensive project in search of a possible ninth planet, which he termed "Planet X". By 1909, Lowell and William H. Pickering had suggested several possible celestial coordinates for such a planet.Lowell and his observatory conducted his search until his death in 1916, but to no avail. Unknown to Lowell, on March 19, 1915, surveys had captured two faint images of Pluto, but they were not recognized for what they were.There are fifteen other known prediscoveries, with the oldest made by the Yerkes Observatory on August 20, 1909.

Because of a ten-year legal battle with Constance Lowell, Percival's widow, who attempted to wrest the observatory's million-dollar portion of his legacy for herself, the search for Planet X did not resume until 1929,[33] when its director, Vesto Melvin Slipher, summarily handed the job of locating Planet X to Clyde Tombaugh, a 23-year-old Kansan who had just arrived at the Lowell Observatory after Slipher had been impressed by a sample of his astronomical drawings.

Then  Xena (now renamed to Eris was Planet X  This is the one that bobble head Sitchin was on about when he said NASA confirmed his theory Xena's moon was call Gabrielle (now Dysnomia)  Seems the stuck up astronomers that down sized Pluto to a Dwarf plante didn't like Xena

Sitchin Strikes Again 0r How to Bamboozle the Public to sell your books

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/45jack_files/03files/Sitchin_Misdirections.html

This is the first naming of Eris   



Nibiru, Nemisis, Planet X all came to be mixed together by those selling books and DVD's etc

Do you REALLY want Nibiru to be real? Do you think you have a seat on one of the escape ships?