Planet X: SUPPORTING Argument 1

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Gods of the New Millennium, pp 232-234

     In 1987, NASA made an official announcement to recognize
     the possible existence of Planet X. The American journal
     Newsweek reported that: NASA held a press conference at its
     Ames Research Center in California last week to make a rather
     strange announcement: An eccentric 10th planet may - or may
     not - be orbiting the Sun. John Anderson, a NASA research
     scientist who was the principal speaker, has hunch Planet X
     is out there, though nowhere near the other nine. If he is right,
     two of the most intriguing puzzles of space science might be
     solved: what caused mysterious irregularities in the orbits of
     Uranus and Neptune during the nineteenth century? And what
     killed off the dinosaurs 26 million years ago? Alan Alford wrote:

     “As the 1980 drew to a close, two things happened. First, the
     scientific journals began to witness a Planet X debunking
     campaign and, secondly, NASA began to put more and more
     resources into expensive space-based telescopes. All of these
     criticisms focused solely on the mathematical anomalies and
     ignored the other evidence which supported the existence of
     Planet X. In his 1993 update, Tom Van Flandern stressed that
     Planet X was still the only explanation for the strange origin of
     the Neptune satellite system and the unusual features of Pluto
     and Charon. He also put forward important new evidence on
     deviations in several cometary orbits. Van Flandern emphasized
     that the perturbations in both the cometary and planetary orbits
     became progressively greater the further one went out into the
     Solar System, strongly suggesting a single body possible twice
     as far from the Sun as Pluto.”