The Dark Star: The Planet X Evidence by Andy Lloyd

Author:Andy Lloyd [Lloyd, Andy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timeless Voyager Press
Published: 2013-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

Planet X in the Media

Their paper created a stir in Britain, hitting the newsstands through the Independent15 and the popular science magazine New Scientist.12 I also placed this new information in the alternative community's domain, which at the time was rather taken with the idea that Planet X was about to bring about the end of the world, as had been comprehensively recorded by Mark Hazelwood16, amongst others. For some reason, Planet X had become synonymous with an imminent End of the World.

It is true that a planet-sized comet moving through the solar system would not be without its risks to Earth, but the idea has gotten rather tied up with Millennium Fever of late. More level-headed academics have pointed out that the Sumerians didn't even have a word for the equivalent of Apocalypse.17 Which is a moot point.

Anyway, I naively thought that this exciting new scientific research would temper the debate with some rationalism. Instead, the finding appeared to be simply ignored by the Planet X 'community'. Without the accompanying threat of worldwide apocalypse, the scientific progress towards a real tenth planet, no matter how grounded in good science it might be, was not enough to stem the tide of Cataclysm fever.

Perhaps that was because an object embedded within the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt seemed, on the face of it, to be no more of a threat to us than distant Pluto. How could such a body equate with a mighty mythical body that I had likened to a brown dwarf? If this body was a 'weapon of mass destruction', then the dossier outlining the threat it posed needed 'sexing up'! Well, jokes aside, I could see plenty of potential within the Brunini and Melita paper for a larger, more distant body causing the effect they were studying. I could also see related mechanisms to account for catastrophism on Earth, and other solar system planets. Just not in 2003.

British Eccentricity?

There are a number of reasons to believe that their findings are simply the cautious side of a larger spectrum of possibilities for a Planet X roaming the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. As noted above, the greater body of scattered EKBOs lie beyond the assumed 'outer' cliff-face of the gap, and are beyond our current detection ability. The assumed outer limit of the gap is not fixed in stone. It may extend further out, which would allow for a more eccentric orbit for the Perturber, and this will be looked at in more detail in the next chapter. In other words, a relatively circular orbit for Planet X cannot be confirmed at this time, and was simply a premise built into Brunini and Melita's calculations.

Their work assumes that the Kuiper Gap is an empty band within a larger extended disc; it assumes that the disc restarts at 76AU. I rather suspect that it does not. Instead, I consider it likely that the Kuiper 'Cliff' is exactly that; a cut-off point that extends 2000AU, all the way to the inner Oort Cloud. I suggest that

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