Fifth Giant Gas Planet In Our Solar System?
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The Kuiper Belt is a population of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. A particularly puzzling and up-to-now unexplained feature of the Kuiper Belt is the so-called "kernel". The four gas giant planets in our solar system -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune -- may have a long-lost relative. According to a new study, our system was once home to a fifth gas giant that suddenly vanished some 4 billion years ago after a run-in with Neptune. Indirect evidence for this lost world is seen in a strange cluster of icy objects -- called the "kernel" -- in the Kuiper Belt. That's the vast region of primordial debris that encircles the sun beyond the orbit of Neptune. "The Kuiper Belt is a perfect clue to understanding how the solar system evolved since its formation," study author Dr. David Nesvorny, an astronomer at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., told New Scientist. For the study, Nesvorny created computer simulations of Neptune and the "kernel" cluster as they were 4 billion years ago in the early solar system. At the time, the cluster is believed to have been in Neptune's gravitational grasp. But then, according to the simulations, something happened to cause the cluster to escape Neptune's gravitational pull -- placing the cluster and Neptune in their present locations. This is where the lost planet comes in: the simulations suggest that it must have been another gas giant that bumped Neptune and caused it and the "kernel" to part ways. The missing planet bumped into Neptune before disappearing into the abyss of space. Read more here: http://tinyurl.com/pm3xqra The new study was published online in The Astronomical Journal on August 10, 2015 http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/150/3/68 Music credit: YouTube Audio Library 1) Zen Valley - Josh Kirsch & Media Right Productions 2) Ghost Walk - Silent Partner
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Some plea pile thike the sun is a plante but it's a star Ol ne
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Axis is a line threw the planetes relotlen
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I'm very skeptical of this theory. And what can anyone say without further evidence? Continued study of the Kuiper Belt will sort it out.
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your videos are awesome I don't know how you crank out so many good quality videos so quickly you must make videos 24 hours a day but some of the series I just don't believe them I don't know that sounds so weird but sometimes the truth is weirder than fiction so maybe they're correct I don't know they just sound weird and not true
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i belive the sun formed itself then slowly over time picked up and lost planets - it picked up earth, saturn mars venus and jupiter.
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Planet Nibiru. Pole shift.
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Maybe the Kernel will return ? With better KFC chicken called (chicken cluster bites) They have a out of this world taste ;) LOL
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love ur videos dude
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I look forward every week to watch your video's. I have shard many of them on facebook for other people to learn about our solar system.I love Astronomy and go to Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii to do night time photography of the Milky Way galaxy quite often.
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Interesting theory. I wonder if this "missing gas giant" might also explain why the axis of the planet Uranus is so utterly cattywampus when compared with all of the other planets in the Solar System:http://www.space.com/13231-planet-uranus-knocked-sideways-impacts.html
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"SO", we had an extra planet that was in our solar system in normal orbit for millions of years...and then this single gas giant just "took off" out of it;s established orbit and ran into Neptune. Ahhhh...no.
We are in a Tri/Binary solar system with 2-3 separate systems that have a tendency to interfere with each other. Mention Nibiru and you will be labeled a Madman :)
Thanks for the video Nemesis...what do you think?
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