Approaching brown dwarf star

[Ann]

The town decides to burn down the observatory to prevent a similar incident from ever happening again.

Observatories are devilish things!!!



Burning an observatory, disguised as a witch, and baking some jacket potatoes too to have something to munch on while awaiting the end of the world.

Ann

[dougettinger]

Continuing with your simple equations, Sitchin's proposed 10th planet could possibly have the following parameters:
(3600 years)2/3 = 235 AUs and a possible elliptical orbit could be 60 to 400 AUs. Is this assessment correct ?

Yes, except they are Kepler's simple equations (and the plural of AU is AU).

Art Neuendorffer

P.S., Starship Asterisk^* has wonderful buttons for _subscripts and ^superscripts.

Art, I will remember the plural of AU. Thanks. c² = a² + b². I am practicing with the buttons.

Doug Ettinger
Pittsburgh, PA

[Chris Peterson]

Art, I will remember the plural of AU. Thanks. c² = a² + b². I am practicing with the buttons.

That is very true. Curiously, there are no integer solutions for cⁿ = aⁿ + bⁿ when n>2. Unfortunately, BBCode provides no mechanism for adding comments in the page margins, so I'll just have to skip the proof...

[lou]

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=C/2010%20X1

click on link above

this may be the approaching brown dwarf star

[bystander]

this may be the approaching brown dwarf star

It's a comet, no where near enough mass to be a failed star.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/communit ... 31829.html
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/communit ... 04774.html

http://news.discovery.com/space/will-ea ... phecy.html