Hi Philip,
Your bogosity alarm-bells should indeed go off.
The equatorial South pole will bee right on the horizon if you are
at the equator - it can be seen from half the Earth (obviously hosting
less than half the population) - it is hardly secret. Ever heard of the
Southern Cross? - I thought so. It is in the general vicinity of the
equatorial South pole - again, hardly secret. There are several major
observatories in the Southern hemisphere (they can therefore see the
equatorial South pole).
That something should be coming in from 90 degree South at
Earth's distance from the Sun is, to put it mildly - unlikely. In our
neck of the woods things orbit much closer to the ecliptic, say +/-30
degrees at most. And if it was a comet it would be easy to spot well
in advance - they grow large comas this close to the Sun. If it was
an asteroid, we would have a harder time spotting it - but then, they
don't have that kind of orbit.
Equating "Planet X" with Kuiper Belt or Oort Cloud objects, is
really grasping for straws. "Planet X" was invented at the beginning
of the 20th century to explain anomalies in the orbits of the outer
planets.
These anomalies disappeared with improved measurements (from
Voyager 2) of the mass of the outer planets, notably Neptune's.
Current statistics suggest about 35,000 Kuiper Belt objects larger than
100km and 100,000,000 objects larger than 20km across - hundreds of
times more than in the asteroid belt - but obviously a much larger volume
so the density in the Kuiper Belt is orders of magnitude smaller. These
and asteroids and comets et al., are called "minor planets" - not planets,
as McCanney wants you to believe. I don't know what "NASA
announcement" he refers to, but I suspect he exchanged "planet" for
"minor planet" or "Galaxy" for "Solar System".
Towards the end he seems to describe a comet - an ordinary comet.
Why should we care (except from an astronomical view) about just
another comet - we have seen thousands of them. If he wants an
ordinary comet to be "raging", well, fine with me, but it doesn't really
mean anything. And why, why! would anybody be interested in
hiding (apart from that you can't do that) a comet from the public???
I don't know his motives, but he seems to be a good fear-monger.
Reading other astro-related parts of his website, it is clear that he
reads
a lot and mixes and matches words from various sources and makes his
own (scary) reality.
Regner
philip madsen wrote:
On Astronomy:
McCanny made a sort of prophecy today.based upon " */so NASA one week
ago proclaimed it now envisions the solar system with THOUSANDS of
planets ... the new official nasa view of the solar system (concept
thoroughly stolen from my many lectures on "The Many Planet X
Objects") ... while The Discovery Channel announces to the world that
Planet X is being searched for by teams of astronomers world wide as
announced by Japanese astronomers who have been watching changes in
the orbits of the outer planets ... they even call it Planet X in the
journal article that published their study " /*
*//*
*He claims that a rogue planet or comet if you like is maybe due to
become visible in May. He bases this "time" on certain political
activities.. listed at the end of this message...... AND (and here
is the lead to my question), as it is coming from the south, we
ordinary folk not having any access to southern observatories
sufficiently south to see that sky, will finally get to actually see
it in May. *
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*Now is it true and possible that there is a part of the sky that
cannot be seen below the South pole.. ??? Excluding government
access of course, such as satellites etc. *
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*His reasons:*
*/then there is the military edict that all US military bases were to
be moved to underground bases by may of 2008 ... wait !!! it is 2008
... and all naval facilities had to be relocated to a set of new
facilities by ... yup ... may 2008 ... remember that everyone wants
to talk about 2012 ??? i have always said that the main reason for
the 2012 diversion is to keep everyone thinking distant future and
not concentrating on the present ... and then there is the "last
grab" with the seeming lack of interest in the financial and social
destruction of the good ole united states and world wide for that
matter ... NASA and the standard news media such as Discovery Channel
sure would want to be in the news media drivers seat if something
like a planet X object shows up ... they sure would not pre-announce
to far in advance because the short memory US public would not
remember more than a few hours let alone weeks - months or years ...
and last but not least we are heading into the merry merry month of
may ... the one time during the year when we get a glimpse of that
small patch of sky to the far south in late may and early june ...
the time of year that Dr Harrington (deceased head of the US naval
observatory that was in charge of the NASA funded and administered
1980s program called "The Search for Planet X" ) ... the time of
year harrington chose to head down under to new zealand to take
astro-graph pics of ... Planet X ... HMMMM ... what do you think ???
are we about to get our first glimpse of one of these celestial
intruders ... remember it will come into the solar system and erupt
into a giant raging comet ... and NASA will try to tell you of course
(along with their mouth piece The Discovery Channel) that ... don't
mind that thing up in the sky ... its just one of those little dirtly
snowballs ... if such an event is on the horizon ... certainly they
will want to be in control of the "news" you see ... and certainly
will not want you listening to me ... jim mccanney/*
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*Philip. *
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