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New Potential Object in the Solar System - PortalHunter - 12-12-2015
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/2015/12/10/astronomers-find-new-object-possible-super-earth-in-our-solar-system/
There seem to be much speculation about this object, what it is and where exactly it is and all that.
RE: New Potential Object in the Solar System - Rynn - 12-12-2015
Original paper for those interested:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.02652v1.pdf
They conclude that it's either an extreme trans-neptunian object, a super-terrestrial planet or a very cool brown dwarf.
RE: New Potential Object in the Solar System - QueElEs - 12-15-2015
Shall we wait until they figure out which before we write about its settlement?
RE: New Potential Object in the Solar System - Drashner1 - 12-16-2015
Might be best to give it a bit more time.
Todd
RE: New Potential Object in the Solar System - stevebowers - 12-17-2015
The curious fact is that this object has been discovered very near in the sky to where Alpha Centauri is, which seems like too much of a coincidence.
I suspect it is an imaging artifact of some sort, or maybe an artificial artifact on its way between the two systems (a beamrider?) (unlikely) but not a random planet in our system.