Don’t Mess with Our Planets
Some waking thoughts on the destruction of worlds.
Space: The Final Frontier
A recent study determined that the unlikely scenario of a planet suddenly leaving orbit and wandering aimlessly around the solar system or leaving it altogether is entirely possible.
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Using Jupiter’s gravity as the catalyst, it was found that there exists a 1% chance that it could actually under very determined conditions, yank Mercury out of orbit and send it swinging out beyond Mars where it might either become stable on the asteroid belt, continue to leave the solar system as a rogue interstellar planetesimal or return in free-fall towards an inner planet trajectory (with many potential collision opportunities with both Earth and Venus for centuries to come.)
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So, here is a stern a word of warning to you pencil-necked astro scientists whom feel justified in the delineation of Pluto from “planet” to “asteroid.” -Let’s not do that with Mercury, okay? When you treat a planet like an asteroid it starts to behave like one…
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Damn! -We have to move!
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5 Responses to “Don’t Mess with Our Planets”
On September 3, 2009 at 12:24 pm
This is scary. I hope that 1% chance doesn’t happen.
On September 3, 2009 at 3:45 pm
I have a theory. I think that by 2011 we are going to hear about asteroid ATE111 and we are going to have a bit of a scare. Since this is the 111th congress, President Obama’s kabbalah number is 111 (gematria), and everyone says that the world is going to end in 2011, why not say that it will be by the close proximity of ATE111 to earth? That’s my theory, since I think that numbers explain a lot in the universe. By the way ATE111 is located on the main belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Not that far right?
On September 3, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Hmmm. Somebody’s world ends every minute. Just one solution: Let’s keep those shuttles flying and hurry up the space program.
On September 4, 2009 at 7:33 am
2011, eh? Not a believer of this even with the curious numbers.
Back in the very early 1980s a lot of people believed that President Ronald Eugene Reagan was “the Beast” because the number of letters in his first, middle and last name were “6,6,6″
Naw, -he was as old as the Devil himself but we was not ‘the Devil’ by any measure.
On September 24, 2009 at 12:59 pm
great article
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