Subject: Астрономы о 10 планете
Date   : 16 Dec 2002 19:29 GMT
From   : Denis Maimistov [DenisM] (AstroSchool@mail.convey.ru)
To     : All

Если верить журнальным публикациям, астрономы снова поговаривают о 
"Планете X", размером с землю, в области KBO (TNO):

1. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=360803
   More signs that solar system has tenth planet
   By Charles Arthur, Technology Editor
   12 December 2002
  "The solar system may have a tenth planet lurking beyond the orbit of Pluto, 
   calculations by astronomers in Britain and Argentina indicate. "Planet  
   X" could lie 60 times further from the Sun than the Earth, roughly 600  
   million miles out. But nobody would have spotted it directly because, if it
   exists, it orbits in a direction that astronomers rarely study. The new 
   planet, thought to be the same size as Earth, would lie on the inside 
   edge of the Kuiper Belt....
   .....Dr Melita, of the astronomy unit at Queen Mary, University of London, 
   and Dr Adrian Brunini, of the University of La Plata in Argentina, suggested 
   the sharp edge of the Kuiper Belt was caused by a similar sweeping, and 
   that had, over time, created a planet-sized object, whose orbit of the sun
   would be almost circular, but angled by 20 degrees to that of the inner
   planets....
   ........
   The idea has had qualified approval from other astronomers. ...
   But the existence of a planet is not yet confirmed. Other hypotheses could 
   explain the Belt's shape, Dr Melita said, such as a small star about one-
   tenth as large as the Sun, passing near when the solar system formed about
   six billion years ago. "That could have created something like this," he
   said. "
2. http://www.newscientist.com/inprint/ipcontents.jsp
   Magazine Contents
   14 December 2002 issue 
   Features....
   THE HUNT FOR PLANET X
   There are tantalising hints of another Earth out on the edge of our Solar 
   System. Are hundreds more just waiting to be found, ask Heather Couper and
   Nigel Henbest.
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  Денис Маймистов