Planet X & Asteroids - They Will Be Found!
There has a been a lot of talk about how an uncharted asteroid, or even Planet X, could do us harm in 2012. The problem is that these predictions are hard to prove or disprove - we don't have good enough telescopes.
This is all about to change with the Aug 2007 launch of Pan-STARRS in Hawaii. Over 4x bigger than any other telescope camera, it will photograph three-quarters of our sky by 2010.
Until now roughly 600,000 asteroids have been catalogued. By 2012 that might reach 1 million thanks to the new telescope.
It will also find any new planets that might be out there, having the ability to locate Jupiter-size planets up to 1700AU from the sun, and Pluto-sized planetoids up to 250AU away. As a comparison, Pluto is between 29-49AU from the sun. The director of the operation said "If Nemesis is out there, we will find it".
Source: New Scientist, 15 Dec 2007
This is all about to change with the Aug 2007 launch of Pan-STARRS in Hawaii. Over 4x bigger than any other telescope camera, it will photograph three-quarters of our sky by 2010.
Until now roughly 600,000 asteroids have been catalogued. By 2012 that might reach 1 million thanks to the new telescope.
It will also find any new planets that might be out there, having the ability to locate Jupiter-size planets up to 1700AU from the sun, and Pluto-sized planetoids up to 250AU away. As a comparison, Pluto is between 29-49AU from the sun. The director of the operation said "If Nemesis is out there, we will find it".
Source: New Scientist, 15 Dec 2007
posted by Rob at
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
1 Comments:
then have they been found? what is the low down on the pictures of planet x that i've seen on the nibiru channel?
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