Re: Imaging Planet X

Bob Officer wrote in Article <[email protected]>
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, JTRIV <[email protected]> in sci.astro wrote:
>
>> Are you new to all this? There are many obvious contradictions. A
>> magnitude 11 object should be visible to most amateur
>> astronomers. Nancy has claimed her object is 2 or 10 or 11th
>> magnitude. She also says that only an observatory scope can see
>> it. (She has also talked of "magnitude", "near" and "far" knobs
>> on telescopes so we know she doesn't have a clue)
>>
>> Of course most recently Nancy has claimed a 20th magnitude spot
>> on pictures of her coordinates is her fantasy planet. This is
>> 10,000 times fainter that 11th magnitude. 
>>
>> Not much of what Nancy says is not a contradiction of some sort.
>> One of my favorites is the claim that her planet would be visible
>> to the naked eye 1 year 7 months before the May 2003 date. Before
>> October 2001 came the definition of "naked eye" was changed to
>> include telescopes! 
>
> The biggest laugh is if her planet X is real, and is at the distance she says.
> for it to pass between the Sun and Earth on it's appointed day, it will be
> traveling at or near the speed of light... and will not be on a returning
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> orbit.
>
> Nancy builds a set of impossibilities, and weaves more lies to cover the 1st
> set, and then a second set of lies, and third, and fourth.
>
> I wonder, How does Steve Haas feels being called a liar by Nancy?

1 AU ~= 149,600,000 km
Pluto-Sun ~= 39.44 AU
PlanetX-Sun ~= 8 Pluto-Sun
,
"may 2003" - "feb 12 21:38:18 UTC 2002" ~= 15 month
1 month ~= 30.5 days
,
Speed of light ~= 1.08*10^9 km/h

For PlanetX to arrive here on may 2003, it will have to have an
average speed of:
(149,600,000 * 39.44 * 8) / (15 * 30.5 * 24) km/h

Which according to my casio fx-180PA is:

(4.7201792*10^10) / (10980) km/h --> 4298888.16 km/h

Which is (4298888.16 / 1.08*10^9) * 100% --> 0.398% of the speed
of light.

At this speed, it takes Planet-X appr. 34 hours and 47 minutes to
travel 1 AU, not all that impressive considering light does it in
some 8 minutes, 18 seconds (using the above simplified numbers).


Who is the liar now, Bobbyboy?

regards,
Jos