(1st) More Comets & Meteors heading Earthward, (2nd) Sedna's eccentric orbit .... clues to the existence of mass extinctions and the Sun's twin "Brown Star"? Are Dots beginning to be Connected; and ... are they being "Connected Correctly"?
This article appeared in "The SUN" on March 12th, 2010 (the "?" is added)
11 March 2010 - Scientists at NASA say: AN invisible star may be circling our Sun and causing deadly comets to bombard the Earth:
The invisible star .... a brown dwarf - up to five times the size of Jupiter - could be to blame for mass extinctions that occur here every 26 million years.
The star - nicknamed Nemesis by Nasa scientists - would be invisible as it only emits infrared light and is incredibly distant.
Nemesis is believed to orbit our solar system at 25,000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun.
As it spins through the galaxy, its gravitational pull drags icy bodies out of the Oort Cloud - a vast sphere of rock and dust twice as far away as Nemesis.
These "snowballs" are thrown towards Earth as comets, causing devastation similar to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Now Nasa believes they will be able to find Nemesis using a new heat-seeking telescope that began scanning the skies in January.
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer - expected to find a thousand brown dwarfs within 25 light years of the Sun - has already sent back a photo of a comet possibly dislodged from the Oort Cloud.
Scientists' first clue to the existence of Nemesis was the bizarre orbit of a dwarf planet called Sedna... and believe its unusual, 12,000-year-long oval orbit could be explained by a massive celestial body.
Mike Brown, who discovered Sedna in 2003, said: "Sedna is a very odd object - it shouldn't be there.
"The only way to get on an eccentric orbit is to have some giant body kick you - so what is out there?"
Professor John Matese, of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, said most comets come from the same part of the Oort Cloud... adding this: "There is statistically significant evidence that this concentration of comets could be caused by a companion to the Sun."
Click Image To Enlarge: Sedna's Diameter
Click Image To Enlarge: Kuiper Belt (outer planetary orbits) & Oort Cloud Comets
Click Image To Enlarge: Sedna among largest known Kuiper Belt bodies
Click Image To Enlarge: Earth & relative size of asteroids/outer bodies
The "Solar System" is apparently a very busy place ... and getting busier.
More Earthquakes (the USGS says all is unconnected and perfectly normal)
And ... Sedna has a very eccentric orbit and just "shouldn't be where it is"
The Sun's "BROWN Dwarf Twin" ... is this Planet "X" ... does "Nibiru" in fact orbit this Brown Dwarf and "accompany it" on its long journey around our Sun; causing periodic havoc to Planet Earth and "anomalies" to Pluto and the Inner Solar System?
Gliese and its Brown Star Companion: Click Image To Enlarge
The Solar System Just Got A Bit Bigger: Click Image To Enlarge
Click Image To Enlarge: Size comparison between out SUN , Gliese, Brown Dwarfs, & Jupiter
and then there was ..... APOPHIS
Just "FYI": Apophis on July 14, 2013 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Apophis: 14 Dec 2012 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Apophis: 14 Jan 2013 (Click Image To Enlarge)
Asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004.
The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields.
Initially, Apophis was thought to have a 2.7 percent chance of impacting Earth in 2029. Additional observations of the asteroid ruled out any possibility of an impact in 2029.
However, the asteroid is expected to make a record-setting -- but harmless -- close approach to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, when it comes no closer than 18,300 miles above Earth's surface.
Click To Enlarge: Apophis... underneath which is the Earth