In Sumerian mythology a large rogue planet enters our solar system from the southern skies through about where the astroid belt is every few thousand years. It has a very eliptical Orbit of our Sun. Has anyone spotted it coming yet?
2007-01-20 17:23:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
yeah i heard its coming on friday the thirteenth 2069. better look out
2007-01-20 17:36:09 · answer #1 · answered by wesnaw1 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Keep in mind that its Sumerian "Mythology", not fact.
Also, if the rogue planet passes this way every few thousand years, it's in orbit around the sun and cannot "enter the solar system". It's already in it.
If there really were a planet like that coming around "every few thousand years", any one of a dozen civilizations would have reported it via temple paintings, heiroglyphs, or whatever methods they used to record things.
Out of all of them, the Egyptian Old and Middle kingdoms certainly would have had something interesting to say. They didn't.
By the way, how did the Sumerians know where the asteroid belt is? It happens to lie in the plane of the ecliptic, but that's where all the known planets are. Why not say it's coming in the southern sky about where Jupiter is? Or Saturn? Those two planets could have been seen by the naked eye by Sumerians and Egyptians. The asteroid belt couldn't.
Big Al Mintaka
2007-01-21 01:52:58 · answer #2 · answered by almintaka 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋