Could other planets exist on the other side of the sun that we cannot detect with our current technology?

Answer 1

Actually ARGON although you are trying to sound really smart some of the stuff you are saying does not hold much water.. It is possible that at exactly the other side of our rotation there could be a nother planet that we don't see...almost like another demension. When we launch rockets and satelites and probes we don't send them in such a way that they would cross our planets path on the opposite side of the sun... however I am sure that there are brilliant minds out there in the scientific world that have discussed such a possiblilty by now and so not hearing of such an object would make it seem highly unlikey that such a planet in that position would "exsist" However Pluto didn't "exsist" 150 years ago... if you know what I am saying..

Answer 2

If you mean a planet on the opposite side of the sun from us which orbits in such a way that it's never in our view, I'd say it's very very unlikely.

We'd detect such a planet due to it's effect on the orbits of other planets. In fact there was a time when scientist speculated that a planet called Vulcan existed very close to the sun, because Mercury's actual orbit and calculated orbit varied slightly. This was actually due to relativity.

Now there may be other planets far out in the solar system that we can't detect, or as of yet, haven't detected.

Answer 3

Haha, that's an interesting question! In the vast unlikelyhood that such an abnormal orbit occured (the planet's rotational velocity, as in how many degress it traverses in a set amount of time) would have to exactly equal ours. Furthermore, the planet would have to be situation on the exact opposite side of the sun. No two known planets in our solar system share these particular traits.

However, supposing there WERE a planet that satisfied those conditions, we would be able to discern its existance by the impact it would have on the slight "wobbling" of the sun as the planets tug it gently back and forth, and also by the effect its gravity would have on passing comet, meteors, and man-made craft.

I think we can conclusively say that no such planet exists within the region from venus to saturn, as that is as far as our space probes have travelled via gravitational boosting, which would be disrupted by the presence of an extra planet.

Answer 4

It really depends on what you mean by the other side of the sun. "The other side of the sun" can literally be anywhere in the universe. Much of our universe is left undiscovered by the human species. There is an infinite number of planets that we can not detect with our current technology.

Answer 5

Hi,

They found out that we rotate around the sun. So all the rest of planets in solar system.

There is no other side they cannot detect cause sooner or later Earth comes on that side too.

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Answer 6

Do you mean like revolving at the same speed as we are so we never see them? if so then :

No we send satelites and stuff that see the other side of the sun and would know. Good question though.

Answer 7

not on the other side of the sun, because we rotate all the way around it and would surely find it, but in other solar systems and galaxies it is very possible.

Answer 8

What do you mean by "other side"? We're on the other side every 182 days or so. But I do think there's plenty out there left to discover.

Answer 9

Yes and I have explained how in other posts in a matter of fact common sense way

Answer 10

No we revolve around the sun.