Article: <5dvfij$s71@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Orbital Elements for the 12th Planet
Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:30:11 GMT
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Paul Campbell writes:
> The only way to get a 3600 year orbit is if you place the
> 12th planet way out there. If it's expected to return every
> once in a while and enter the solar system it must be on a
> very highly elliptical orbit, with one foci located near the
> sun and the other way out there. Except that means that the
> 12th planet would enter from Orion and leave in the general
> direction of Orion. It certainatly wouldn't head out towards
> Sagittarius as that is in the opposite side of the sky.
> "Paul Campbell" <scopedr@connect.ab.ca>
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
Your dilemma is due to your lack of understanding on how comets
behave when outside of your view. As we explained in the long
running Re: Ephemerides - the Zetas Explain thread, which ran for
2 months on this message board a year ago, comets DO NOT form
perfect ellipses, they form something akin to the shape of an ice
cream cone. All comets have more than one foci, and develop the
shape you SEE only when rounding a focus.
In the case of the 12th Planet, it indeed DOES have a long
elliptical orbit, as we have explained. We will ask our emissary,
Nancy, to report a portion of our prior Zetatalk on that issue.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])
As requested, the excerpt:
(Begin Zetatalk[TM] excerpt on 12th Planet Orbit)
ZetaTalk: 12th Planet Orbit
The 12th Planet's path is elliptical, making a long flat
circle around its two gravitational masters, your Sun and a body
you cannot see. The Sun's alter ego in this matter is not an
object on your sky maps, but for the purposes of calculating the
12th Planet's orbit, you can assume it be have the same mass as
the Sun, and to be at a distance that allows the curve of the
ellipse to smooth to an essentially straight line between the two
orbital foci. The 12th Planet's travels are not unlike a train on
parallel tracks, where the train is on one side of the tracks
going in one direction, and on the other side coming back. It
will surprise you to know that the second foci is not that far
away. Since it rivals the Sun in mass, the assumption would be
that your astronomers would know about it. However, being dark,
they stare past it and think it space. To use multiples of the
distance from your Sun to its farthest known orbiting planet,
which you call Pluto, this foci is from the Sun 18.724 times as
far away.
(End Zetatalk[TM] excerpt on 12th Planet Orbit)
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