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| jaser7 | ||||| Friday, March 01, 2002 - 11:06 am
Will the Hubble be looking for Planet X using it's upgraded heat sensing cameras?
Are there any public NASA images of possible large objects in our solar system, on or off the ecliptic plane?
Jason Martell
Xfacts.com |
| Dave | ||||| Saturday, March 02, 2002 - 07:33 pm
NASA does not dictate the scientific observations for HST. Any astronomer can submit an observing proposal to the Space Telescope Science Institute. In order to obtain telescope time, the proposal would have to demonstrate that the research is important and possible.
I would imagine that a program to find Planet X would be hard to do since HST is not optimized to do large sky survey work. HST is designed to precisely image very small areas, so you would have to know exactly where to look.
www.stsci.edu is a good place to see what images are available from HST |
| J.T. | ||||| Monday, March 04, 2002 - 12:08 pm
i would liek to know where is planet X? |
| Dave | ||||| Monday, March 04, 2002 - 12:18 pm
Perhaps jaser7 could answer this, but I know there was at one point a theory that a planet might be located in Earth's orbit, but exactly on the other side of the Sun where we can't see it. This is not entirely silly -- the opposite point on the orbit is a Lagrange point, which is a sort-of-stable gravitation spot. Unfortunately for this theory, it's only sort of stable, and over thousands of years that planet would have wandered out of that spot and wound up were we could see it. There are other Lagrange points, and stable ones -- they are 60 degrees ahead and behind us in our orbit. Of course, we can see those spots, and we know there's no planet there -- but there are thin dust clouds there, stuck in the Lagrange point. |
| HERMS | ||||| Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 07:07 pm
PLANET X OR NIBIRU IS ON ITS WAY AND NASA IS DENYING IT |
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