Re: Planet X: NOT a Star
In Article <[email protected]> Disk wrote:
> I saw a post a few months ago about Planet-X
> and I immediately (and incorrectly) thought it
> must be about a newly discovered planet outside
> of Pluto that had recently been confirmed.
What do you call THREE sightings from THREE observatories in THREE
different countries by THREE teams? Please read the reports on the
Troubled Times we site, again
(http://www.zetatalk.com/teams/tteam342.htm). An image WAS obtained
during the Newchatal sighting, but ordered to be destroyed. Why do you
suppose that Lowell, In Flagstaff, had the reserved scope BLOCKED from
looking toward Orion the night it was rented by a private individual to
do just that? Why do you suppose the exact same thing happened at
Gordon MacMilan, in Vancouver? Piping, scaffolding, in the way. Tisk.
And since scaffolding didn't work at Lowell (they forgot to tell the
observatory operator WHY it was put there) they had the operator at
Gordon MacMilan do all manner of stalling and evasive tactics. THEN
when that didn't work, they close the whole observatory down, for
months!
And then there was the IRAS sighting, as reported by The Washington
Post, front page, on December 31, 1983.
Washington Post
Mystery Heavenly Body Discovered
31-Dec-1983
A heavenly body possibly as large as the giant planet Jupiter
and possibly so close to Earth that it would be part of this
solar system has been found in the direction of the
constellation Orion by an orbiting telescope aboard the U.S.
infrared astronomical satellite. So mysterious is the object
that astronomers do not know if it is a planet, a giant
comet, a nearby "protostar" that never got hot enough to
become a star, a distant galaxy so young that it is still in
the process of forming its first stars or a galaxy so
shrouded in dust that none of the light cast by its stars ever
gets through. "All I can tell you is that we don't know what
it is," Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, IRAS chief scientist for
California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and director of the
Palomar Observatory for the California Institute of
Technology said in an interview.
The most fascinating explanation of this mystery body,
which is so cold it casts no light and has never been seen
by optical telescopes on Earth or in space, is that it is a
giant gaseous planet, as large as Jupiter and as close to
Earth as 50 billion miles. While that may seem like a
great distance in earthbound terms, it is a stone's throw in
cosmological terms, so close in fact that it would be the
nearest heavenly body to Earth beyond the outermost
planet Pluto. "If it is really that close, it would be a part
of our solar system," said Dr. James Houck of Cornell
University's Center for Radio Physics and Space Research
and a member of the IRAS science team. "If it is that
close, I don't know how the world's planetary scientists
would even begin to classify it."
The mystery body was seen twice by the infrared satellite
as it scanned the northern sky from last January to
November, when the satellite ran out of the supercold
helium that allowed its telescope to see the coldest bodies
in the heavens. The second observation took place six
months after the first and suggested the mystery body had
not moved from its spot in the sky near the western edge
of the constellation Orion in that time. "This suggests it's
not a comet because a comet would not be as large as the
one we've observed and a comet would probably have
moved," Houck said. "A planet may have moved if it
were as close as 50 billion miles but it could still be a more
distant planet and not have moved in six months time.
Whatever it is, Houck said, the mystery body is so cold
its temperature is no more than 40 degrees above
"absolute" zero, which is 459 degrees Fahrenheit below
zero. The telescope aboard IRAS is cooled so low and is
so sensitive it can "see" objects in the heavens that are
only 20 degrees above absolute zero. When IRAS scientists
first saw the mystery body and calculated that it could be
as close as 50 billion miles, there was some speculation
that it might be moving toward Earth. "It's not incoming
mail," Cal Tech's Neugebauer said. "I want to douse that
idea with as much cold water as I can."