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Aaahhhh yes.... Mysterious Planet X....
The new telescopes will look for the mysterious Planet X.....
Interconnected system of four telescopes in the Observatory in Hawaii, which include the University of Hawaii, will be in the next few years look especially asteroids (asteroid), and comets, whose career could be in the future cross paths with the Earth.
Some astronomers, however, promised that the captured shots of space may find the long sought and deprecated Planet X (with the pronunciation "IKS", not the Roman dozen). The outermost, but only a hypothetical planet of our solar system.
Location Hawaii allows astronom??m watch three quarters of space around the Earth.
Fierce history....
The idea that much more expensive for all the known planets circulated yet another planet, named X, is very old. It shows how difficult it is scientific knowledge.
Planet X has become the most popular astronomy at the beginning of the 20th century. Among its best-known promoters belonged American mathematician and stargazer Percival Lowell. Recently gravity big Planet X should explain in particular irregularities in track planets Uranus and Neptune.
Lowell looking for it hard, because you wanted to improve the professional reputation. Po??ramotil it because it supported the idea that the canals on Mars, perhaps artificially created. However, it was an optical illusion caused by imperfect telescopes.
By 1916, when he died, but Lowell Planet X found.
And not findit or other astrologers. In 1930 the discovery of Pluto. It seemed that this is calculated by Planet X. But gradually revealed that his weight could not be small irregularities drah explain Uranus and Neptune.
The wound from the Voyager 2nd....
Hypothesis of the existence of Planet X and gradually odum?rala lived up to the nineties of the 20th century. Then the researchers evaluated the records of the U.S. probe Voyager 2, which prol?©tla around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Concluded that the irregularities in Uranus track, in fact, were not anomalies, but the wrong calculation, which in the past come to overvalue the mass (and hence the gravitational effect) neighboring Neptune.
Most astronomers then finally deleted Planet X from its dictionary. But some are still not.
Disorders in Kuiperov?› belt....
Now for the expensive Neptune move less space objects in the field, which is called Kuiper??v belt. Since the Sun is located thirty to fifty times further than Earth circulated. And for some objects that are manifested in disorders belt path.
"One could explain the existence of a remote physical object," said astronomer Robert Jedicke for the magazine New Scientist, and to revive the hypothesis of planet X . Maybe enough to be big as the Earth, possibly even smaller, about as Mars.
Jedicke works at the observatory in Hawaii.
The first new telescope system became fully operational here in December, the other three are gradually added until 2012. They will always face one direction and automatically linking records and evaluate new computer program.
New Hope....
Jedicke hopes that thanks to new teleskop??m space finally emerge from Planet X, putuj?c? freezing ends up somewhere in Kuiperov??m bands. If you have more luck than Lowell, the observatory will change school textbooks.
Or even Jedicke be among the researchers who have devoted a great deal of his life finding something that does not exist. And they are important for the development of science. Show how the path is not, and shall specify the other for finding the right solution. However, much of the joy they have........
In our solar system there are eight officially recognized planets in order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. If there is a Planet X would be the ninth.