Re: Hints of Planet-sized Objects Bewilder Hubble Scientists

In Article: <9hdsg4$gmm$1@nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov> Ron Baalke
> JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
> CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
> NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
>
>  Hints of Planet-sized Objects Bewilder Hubble Scientists
>                         June 27, 2001
>  Scientists are mystified by what may be unexpected, wandering,
>  planet-sized objects. ... The unusually short period (less than 20
>  hours) over which these microlensing events occurred indicates
>  that the mass of the intervening objects could be as little as
>  80 times that of Earth. If confirmed, these bodies would be the
>  smallest celestial objects ever seen beyond our solar system that
>  are not orbiting any star. ... Theoretically, these objects might
>  be planets that were gravitationally torn away from parent stars
>  in the cluster. However, they are estimated to make up as much
>  as 10 percent of the cluster's mass -- too numerous to be
>  wandering, "orphaned" planets.

And other recent announcements (below) that support the ZetaTalk
descriptions of Planet X made in 1995:

    Fires such as go on in the center of suns do not only
    proceed full bore. Why would they? Do you not have
    a fire within you that is maintained at a steady
    temperature? Do you not find that the fire in your
    fireplace can be slowed by adjusting the damper?
    Humans do not understand what is occurring within
    the Sun, a combustion of sorts that ignited because of the
    pressure of elements following the big bang, during the
    congealing period. The Sun was not born, lit. It lit as
    compression continued to the point where a product of
    subatomic particle collision did not dissipate, but
    accumulated, and the degradation of this substance is
    what you are viewing and feeling in your sunlight.
    This is a simplistic explanation for a complicated
    process. [Planet X] has a similar process
    ongoing within its core, but being composed of heavier
    substances than your Sun, this process is slowed.
        ZetaTalk™, [Planet X] Glow
            (http://www.zetatalk.com/science/s22.htm)

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Astronomers examine brown dwarf's hazy atmosphere
by Karl Hill, December 15, 1998

    Brown dwarfs, sometimes known as failed stars, have
    a reputation for being the dim bulbs of the heavens. That's
    one reason the first real specimen, a brown dwarf named
    Gliese 229B, was discovered only three years ago. But
    Gliese 229B presented a puzzle to New Mexico State
    University astronomer Mark Marley and his colleagues as
    they studied the strange new object, because it seemed
    even darker than expected. "Brown dwarfs are supposed to
    be dim, but it was turning out to be much, much darker
    than we would have thought in the optical part of the
    spectrum," Marley said.

Sky Survey Scientists Discover New Celestial Dwarfs
Sloan Digital SkySurvey, May 31, 1999

    Scientists of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey announced
    today (May 31) that early data from the Survey have
    revealed a new type of astronomical object, smaller
    than a star but larger than a planet.

Counting Brown Dwarfs
Earth Changes TV, August 25, 2000

    Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
    have taken attendance in a class of brown dwarfs and
    found indications that these odd and elusive objects also
    tend to be loners. The Hubble census - the most complete
    to date - provides new and compelling evidence that stars
    and planets form in different ways. "Because the brown
    dwarfs bridge the gap between stars and planets, their
    properties reveal new and unique insights into how stars
    and planets form," said Joan Najita of the National
    Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, AZ. The
    approximate size of a brown dwarf compared to Jupiter
    and the Sun. Although brown dwarfs are similar in size to
    Jupiter, they are much more dense and produce their own
    light whereas Jupiter shines with reflected light from the
    Sun.

A Neighbor of our Solar System Discovered
Institute For Astronomy news release, November 26, 2000

    The nearest stars to us provide vantage points to study the
    different stellar populations in the Milky Way. They are
    brighter than similar stars located at larger distances, so
    they can be observed in fine detail. Considerable efforts
    are devoted to finding the stars that populate our own
    backyard. The most recent example is reported here. It is an
    object with a mass lower than a tenth of a solar mass,
    located at a distance of only 13 light years.