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- detritus0
There could be a black hole in the solar system - it just wouldn't be a very big one. Perhaps there's a small one out there in the far reaches - the infamous PlanetX that some people want to believe in :)
As for elliptical orbits - it would be odder still if every orbit were perfectly circular. The implication then being that the solar system is an entirely discrete and perfectly ordered construct, in a state of perfect equilibrium, which it's clearly not.
I think NASA were probably largely non-plussed about Pluto's demotion - it's a destination come what may, funding or nay. American Astronomers, on the other hand, have lost their Solar planet - so those wild cats are on the war path!
- i mentioned the elliptical orbit, b/c I was wondering what pull could call a planet back to the sun since it wandered off.********
- but that idea of balance is good... but what's making the balance?********
- sorry again: I meant what makes the non-equilibrium balanced, then?********
- what do you mean by balance?ribit
- or for that matter 'entirely discrete and perfectly ordered construct'? who's deciding what's 'ordered"?ribit
- ukit, it doesn't need a "who?", just needs a "why"********
- why what?ribit
- Actually you could be correct detrius about a small singularity, but I'm not sure on the lifetime of small blackholes..TheBlueOne
- i mentioned the elliptical orbit, b/c I was wondering what pull could call a planet back to the sun since it wandered off.