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Article: <[email protected]>
From: [email protected](Nancy )
Subject: Re: Orbital Elements for the 12th Planet
Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:15:00 GMT
In article <[email protected]> Greg Neill
writes:
> I don't care if it's made of rice krispy squares a mile
across,
> 18.724/4 does not equal 3.560. To quote you directly:
> [email protected] (Greg Neill)
Yeah, it should be 1/5, not 1/4 the distance. Another one of my typos. Thanks for pointing it out. 1/5 of 18.724 the distance from the Sun to Pluto is 3.74 - the 3.560 the Zetas were mentioning to be the overshoot after the first pass where the 12th turns around for its second pass. Thanks for pointing this out Greg :-)
(Begin ZetaTalk[TM])
ZetaTalk: 12th Planet Orbit
The 12th Planet's path is elliptical, making a long flat circle around its two gravitational masters, your Sun and a body you cannot see. The Sun's alter ego in this matter is not an object on your sky maps, but for the purposes of calculating the 12th Planet's orbit, you can assume it be have the same mass as the Sun, and to be at a distance that allows the curve of the ellipse to smooth to an essentially straight line between the two orbital foci. The 12th Planet's travels are not unlike a train on parallel tracks, where the train is on one side of the tracks going in one direction, and on the other side coming back. It will surprise you to know that the second foci is not that far away. Since it rivals the Sun in mass, the assumption would be that your astronomers would know about it. However, being dark, they stare past it and think it space. To use multiples of the distance from your Sun to its farthest known orbiting planet, which you call Pluto, this foci is from the Sun 18.724 times as far away. ...
Having passed by the Sun, the 12th Planet now slows. The rate
of slowing is dependent on two factors, essentially - its speed
and the fact that both its gravitational masters are now behind
it. As fast as the 12th Planet picked up speed approaching your
Sun, it slows even faster, the nearness of your Sun behind it no
small factor in this. Nevertheless, for a traveling planet the
size of the 12th Planet, putting on the brakes and turning about
is no small matter. It must first come to a stop, which it does
in approximately 2 years 3 months after passing your Sun. The
12th Planet's orbit takes it well away from the Sun after
passage, so that it moves out a distance equal to 1/5 of the
distance between the Sun and its other foci before it slows to a
stop. After passing through the Solar System, the 12th Planet
moves out on the opposite side some 3.560 times the distance from
your Sun to its farthest planet, Pluto, then stops. It then
hovers, not moving, essentially, for 3 years 6 months, and then
slowly begins a return trip which telescopes or mirrors the
voyage out.
(End ZetaTalk[TM])