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Anomalies in the Outer Solar System Planet X
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Author Andy Lloyd Old Cryptian 1979-86 BSc (Hons) (1 st Class) University of Lancaster, post-graduate studies at University of California at San Diego. Author of ‘Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence’ (2005), ‘Ezekiel One’ (2009), ‘The Followers of Horus’ (2010) Webmaster of www.darkstar1.co.uk Lives in Longlevens with wife and 2 sons
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Planet X: What do we Know? “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know.” Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2002
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A Familiar Scale?
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The True Scale An astronomical unit is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun (~ 150,000,000 km or 93,000,000 miles) 1 light year (ly) = 63240 astronomical units The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.2 light years away. The Sun’s domain extends out to ~1 ly, possibly more
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Distances at a Glance Neptune (30.0AU), Pluto (30-40AU) Kuiper Belt (30 – 55AU) Heliopause (~80AU) Inner Oort Cloud (2000 – 20,000AU) Outer Oort Cloud (20,000AU – 50,000+AU) Proxima cantauri (265,000AU) Galactic Centre (27,000 light years)
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Kuiper Belt Anomalies The Kuiper Belt extends from Neptune (30 AU) to ~ 55 AU from the Sun, and much bigger than the asteroid belt. The Kuiper Cliff/Gap at 55AU Missing Kuiper Belt Object populations Highly anomalous orbital properties of certain Kuiper Belt Objects
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Protoplanetary Disk
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Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs)
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The Heliopause
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Pioneer and Voyager On-going anomalous trajectories of the Pioneer spacecraft NASA still puzzled after many years Voyager spacecraft – heliosheath is distorted IBEX ‘footprint’ – heliosheath locally affected by extra magnetic field “…some fundamental physics is missing from our understanding."
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The Oort Cloud
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Oort Cloud Anomaly The Oort cloud is thought to occupy a vast space from ~2,000AU (~0.03 ly) to ~ 50,000 AU (0.79 ly) from the Sun. Some estimates place the outer edge at between 100,000 and 200,000 AU (1.58 and 3.16 ly) Long-period comets come from the Oort Cloud Long-period comets do not show an even distribution Why?
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Other Anomalies Missing angular momentum in the solar system Computer models call for 5 gas giants IRAS anomalies Uranus : turned over on its side, and too cold. Why?
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“Here be Dragons” Planet X, a terrestrial-sized planet beyond the Kuiper Belt ‘Dark Star’ i.e. a sub-brown dwarf among the comets “Missing” brown dwarf star, presumably ejected by Jupiter Action of passing star Migrating gas giant planet Action of Giant Molecular Cloud/”Fluff”
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Brown Dwarfs
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Will WISE find a new planet?
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Planet X
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Further Reading Thank you for listening! Website: www.darkstar1.co.uk or Google Andy Lloyd lots of interviews on YouTube
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