I read the other day that some people think there is a planet exactly like earth, in our same orbital pattern exactly on the opposite side of the sun. It can never been seen because of the sun, and can never be verified because of the flight patterns of space vehicles (Hubble space telescope etc) are always sent in the opposite direction. Has anyone read about this? Hey...anything is possible.
2006-08-26 07:11:27 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No it is not possible. If such a planet existed it's gravitational influence on the Sun and other bodies around it would be slight, but noticable, and if it has mass it has gravity, unless we do go into astral definitions, which doesn't particularly matter in the Astronomical community at the time as astral means:1. pertaining to or proceeding from the stars; stellar; star-shaped.
2. Biology. pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling an aster; having a discoid, radiate flower head.
3. Theosophy. noting a supersensible substance pervading all space and forming the substance of a second body (astral body) belonging to each individual. It accompanies the individual through life, is able to leave the human body at will, and survives the individual after death.
>1. Most large objects in space are "star shaped" as a star is only a spherical body.
>2. Heck that's not even the right field of science so who cares.
>3. And this sounds a lot like The Force ^_^
And just for your noggin, objects do not orbit the sun in perfect circles, but are rather elliptical, and ellipse have 2 foci and studies have been done to study the other foci of the orbits of the various planets, and there is nothing there.
2006-08-26 07:42:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not possible.
The presence of anything on the same orbit as earth is limited the the Lagrange points, that is 60 degree ahead and 60 degree behind. An object 180 degree away on the same orbit is not stable, and the orbit will quickly change.
Further, and additional body the mass of earth would change the orbital characteristics of nearby planets, Venus and Mars notably. Such perturbations would have been noted well over a hundred years ago. The planet Neptune was discovered after measurements showed the orbit of Uranus to have been affected by another planet, in 1846. And Neptune's gravitational influence on Uranus is about six times weaker, at best, than another earth sized object influence would be on Venus, Mars and Earth.
2006-08-26 14:29:43 · answer #2 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I read this question and remembered reports of it coming into our observatory .So I research the records and found it for you . Yes it's on the opposite side of the sun .
Here is the report for you ..
The new planet has five times the Earth's mass and can be found about 25,000 light-years away in the Milky Way, orbiting a red dwarf star on the opposite side of our sun .
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made using a method called microlensing, which can detect far-off planets with an Earth-like mass.
The planet, which goes by the name OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, takes about 10 years to orbit its parent star, a red dwarf which is cooler and smaller than Earth's Sun.
It is in the same galaxy as Earth, the Milky Way, but is found closer to the galactic centre. Location of this object is on the oposite side of our sun .
2006-08-26 14:35:27 · answer #3 · answered by spaceprt 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, the gravity alone would have been measured long ago... Of course those believers could suppose it's astral with little or no gravity.
Direct line of sight is not necessary for measuring whether something exists or not, if that were so we'd have no reason to believe anything existed before our eyes noticed it - some suppose that's true though...
Question everything til everything makes sense, all together, as one comprehensive "view".
2006-08-26 14:28:28 · answer #4 · answered by Gravitar or not... 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
That assumes all the planets are on an even plane. Even if that were true when they went to the moon they should have been able to see it the way one can see Venus with the naked eye. Because on the moon you would not be lined up on that plane correctly to not see it.
2006-08-26 15:27:18 · answer #5 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its not true in fact its science fiction next ur going to say that thats where the alien UFO's are coming from. there are websites that show pictures of what they think the rest of the solar system looks like from NASA. they show pics and videos of milkyway and everything around the sun and so on.
2006-08-26 14:16:38 · answer #6 · answered by hotmodelanti 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Thats impossible. We would have seen it by now with all the Voyager missions, Mars probes, shuttle missions, and other various missions to Mercury, Venus, Mars, etc. It is just impossible.
2006-08-26 14:15:17 · answer #7 · answered by Ron B. 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. And your evil twin from there is trying to contact you. Don't accept any collect phone calls. Change your yahoo id. Remember, anything is possible.
2006-08-26 14:21:26 · answer #8 · answered by beast 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No...
Anything is not possible..
The earth is not flat either...
To quote P.T.Barnum...
"There is a sucker born every minute"
2006-08-26 14:21:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It could be possible. Go to the Nasa.com.
2006-08-26 14:15:29 · answer #10 · answered by JJ 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋