Re: Planet X on CNN

In Article <3B0DFD2A.73D02184@navix.net> David Knisely wrote:
> Maybe there are additional bodies out there comparable
> in size to Pluto, but there is certainly not one shred of
> evidence for one like the one the N***y troll is
> promoting (either 2nd or 11th magnitude).

Here's some of David's "not one shred of evidence", posted in April on
this newsgroup:

In Article <3AE5832F.9278946E@zetatalk.com>
> Signs of a Hidden Planet?
> http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/03292001/graphb.htm
> by Govert Schilling, Thursday, 29 March 2001, 5 pm PST
>
>    A giant comet in the distant reaches of our solar system
>    has an extremely large, elongated orbit that can't be
>    explained by the gravitational pull from the giant planets
>    in their current positions.  ... The supercomet, 2000
>    CR105, was first spotted in February 2000 and is some
>    400 kilometers wide. It has a highly elliptical orbit well
>    beyond Neptune

In Article <3AE58363.F7C29421@zetatalk.com>
> 10th planet re Pioneer 10&11
> http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/planet991007.html
> By Kenneth Chang, ABCNEWS.com, Oct 7, 2000
>
>   Astronomers may have found hints of a massive, distant,
>   still unseen object at the edge of the solar system — perhaps
>   a 10th planet, perhaps a failed companion star — that
>   appears to be shoving comets toward the inner solar system
>   from an orbit 3 trillion miles away. Two teams of scientists

In Article <3AE583CF.82A50DAA@zetatalk.com>
> Note that Delphinius is a southern constelation (as is Orion),
> and the rogue planets that passes though our solar system is
> noted by the ancients as coming from Orion and taking a
> retrograde orbit during its passage.
>
> Quotes from ...
>
>  A planet beyond Pluto
>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_467000/467572.stm
>  Wednesday, 13 October, 1999, 10:02 GMT 11:02 UK
>  By News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse
>
>    A UK astronomer may have discovered a new and bizarre
>    planet orbiting the Sun, 1,000 times further away than the
>    most distant known planet. ... Currently, Pluto is the planet
>    we think of being on the edge of our planetary system. ... He
>    has calculated that it lies in the constellation of Delphinus
>    (the Dolphin). ... But the planet orbits our Sun in the "wrong"
>    direction, counter to the direction taken by all the other known
>    planets.