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  • You would think, Jim, that they could do it. 

  • Thank's Cheryl !

    I ploted it's course when I was in high school about 1957.  This is what I remember.  I used bodes law to figure it's orbit distance and then figured it out by the purtabations of Pluto.  All you have to do is see how, when and where Pluto reacts to the magnetic pull of the 10th planet.  I did it at age 15 ,surley these learned men can do it now!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law

  • The announcer references the UK paper, The Independent.  I did a search on "four times the size of Jupiter" on that site and came up with a 2011 article about Tyche:  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/up-telescope-search-begin....

    "The hunt is on for a gas giant up to four times the mass of Jupiter thought to be lurking in the outer Oort Cloud, the most remote region of the solar system. The orbit of Tyche (pronounced ty-kee), would be 15,000 times farther from the Sun than the Earth's, and 375 times farther than Pluto's, which is why it hasn't been seen so far.

    "But scientists now believe the proof of its existence has already been gathered by a Nasa space telescope, Wise, and is just waiting to be analysed.

    "The first tranche of data is to be released in April, and astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette think it will reveal Tyche within two years. "If it does, John and I will be doing cartwheels," Professor Whitmire said. "And that's not easy at our age."

    "Once Tyche has been located, other telescopes could be pointed at it to confirm the discovery."

    This is not something that is in the inner solar system.

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