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Re: Orbital Elements for the 12th Planet


Article: <5ehr9d$m71@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>
From: saquo@ix.netcom.com(Nancy )
Subject: Re: Orbital Elements for the 12th Planet
Date: 20 Feb 1997 15:40:29 GMT

In article <5eg1a2$f5f@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Lamong Granquist writes:
>> If they pass and don't curve very much, hyperbolic, you
>> consider them a one-shot affair. The 12th Planet, due to its
>> great mass and the consequent speed it attains for passage,
>> has a different orbit shape!
>
> What you're proposing is throwing out the equivalence principle.
> ... Even if it is reduced by orders of magnitude it would still be
> measurable. It has never been measured. Therefore, you're
> wrong.
> lamontg@nospam.washington.edu

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And what you're proposing is imposing the behavior of non-traveling planets in your Solar System onto this traveling planet, the 12th Planet. Fish can't live out of water therefore the cat must be assumed to live in water. Ridiculous!
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