Re: Hints of Planet-sized Objects Bewilder Hubble Scientists

In Article: <9hdsg4$gmm$1@nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov> Ron Baalke
> JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
> CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
> NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
>
>  Hints of Planet-sized Objects Bewilder Hubble Scientists
>                         June 27, 2001
>  Scientists are mystified by what may be unexpected, wandering,
>  planet-sized objects. ... The unusually short period (less than 20
>  hours) over which these microlensing events occurred indicates
>  that the mass of the intervening objects could be as little as
>  80 times that of Earth. If confirmed, these bodies would be the
>  smallest celestial objects ever seen beyond our solar system that
>  are not orbiting any star. ... Theoretically, these objects might
>  be planets that were gravitationally torn away from parent stars
>  in the cluster. However, they are estimated to make up as much
>  as 10 percent of the cluster's mass -- too numerous to be
>  wandering, "orphaned" planets.

And other recent announcements (below) that support the ZetaTalk
descriptions of Planet X made in 1995:

    [Planet X] assumed its orbit around the Sun due to
    gravitational and motion issues, which were at play
    coming out of what some Earthlings refer to as the
    big bang. This was in fact only a little bang, a local
    affair, however. The orbit of the 12th Planet is long
    and narrow. This is not dependent on gravitational
    and orbital matters within your Solar System, but on
    a larger scheme, which causes the trip back into your
    Solar System to be but a minor part of the itinerary.
    Why does [Planet X] swing so far away from your Solar
    System, and why bother to return, having done so?
    There is a balance between the attraction of your Sun
    and another, unseen by you but nevertheless present and
    in force. [Planet X] travels interminably between these
    two forces, not able to settle on an orbit around just
    one because of the momentum and path it originally
    took. It is caught. The path of [Planet X] is such that it
    spends most of its life out in dark space, slowly moving
    from one giant tug to another. As it approaches one of
    these giants, your Sun being one, it picks up speed,
    and reaches a maximum speed as it passes the
    attraction. Having passed, it now has double the
    gravitational attraction on one side, and quickly
    switches back in the other direction, zooming just as
    rapidly much along the path it just took. Out in space
    again, caught between the two giants that dominate
    its life, it settles down to a sedate few thousand years,
    only to zip around the Sun's counterpart in a like
    manner and head back toward your Solar System.
        ZetaTalk™, 12th Planet
            (http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s04.htm)

A CNN article by Associated Press dated October 23, 1996.
New rebel planet found outside solar system
It's roller-coaster orbit stuns scientists

    A new planet that breaks all the rules about how and where
    planets form has been identified in orbit of a twin star
    about 70 light years from Earth in a constellation commonly
    known as the Northern Cross. The new planet has a
    roller-coaster like orbit that swoops down close to its central
    star and then swings far out into frigid fringes, following a
    strange egg-shaped orbit that is unlike that of any other
    known planet. "We don't understand how it could have
    formed in such an orbit," said William D. Cochran, head of
    University of Texas team that discovered the planet at the
    same time that a group from San Francisco State found it
    independently.

Associated Press article titled Tiny Planet Discovered Beyond Pluto,
June 5, 1997
Theory Suggest More Objects in Solar System

    Astronomers have found an icy miniplanet that orbits
    the sun well beyond Pluto, providing evidence that the solar
    system extends much farther than was once thought. ... At
    its most distant, it wanders three times farther from the
    sun than Pluto, tracing a looping, oblong path into an
    astronomical terra incognito.

Orbits Of Other Distant Planets Oval - Not Circular
Public Affairs Office, San Francisco State University, January 9, 1999
Ligeia Polidora

    Unlike the nine planets that make circular orbits around
    our Sun, all nine of the 17 extrasolar planets which are in
    distant orbits around their host stars travel in oval-shaped
    paths. This surprising pattern suggests that our heliocentric
    perspective skews expectations of worlds elsewhere. The
    circular paths of planets in our solar system may require
    special conditions for them to acquire and maintain their
    more stable circular orbits.

Migrating Planets
Scientific American, Aug 25, 1999

    The movement of the planets through space might
    seem perfect and eternal. But new evidence from the
    icy edge of the solar system shows that Neptune, Pluto
    and the other outer worlds used to follow quite different
    paths.