Nemesis/Potential Doomsday Object Found - Don't Worry Though

Nemesis/Potential Doomsday Object Found - Don't Worry Though

Mike (guest) 15 Mar 2010 13:54

Looks like they may have found the Nemesis/Nibiru whatever. Really cool article. I have to say it poses no threat to us in 2012 or at any other point in the next 1.5 million years.

http://news.discovery.com/space/star-predicted-to-blast-through-the-solar-system.html

Re: Nemesis/Potential Doomsday Object Found - Don't Worry Though

Mike Emmert (guest) 15 Mar 2010 15:27

OK, this article's not a hoax, it's for real. However, this is certainly not imminent. Not only is Gliese 710 not due to arrive for a million and a half years, but also any comets perturbed by this interloper will take tens of millions of MORE years to reach the inner solar system.

Random stars do drift by our Solar System. Astronomers have found one of them. WISE (Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer) might find more.

You might want to check out my post in the Nemesis blog - click on the link to the left under "Doomsday Objects". I think there is a "Nemesis" object (it'll have to be renamed because asteroid # 128 is called Nemesis) that is 5-25 Jupiter masses and is in a long, looping orbit with a period of 26 million years. And I think an object like Gliese 710 (though certainly not Gliese 710 itself) pulled the Nemesis object out into this orbit about 500 million years ago.

Re: Nemesis/Potential Doomsday Object Found - Don't Worry Though

Winters1 15 Mar 2010 15:17

Its great article thank you. Well 1.5 millions years from now they probably will have something to stop of help to prevent this to happen. I know one thing i wont be here to witness this…

Re: Nemesis/Potential Doomsday Object Found - Don't Worry Though

bryan (guest) 16 Mar 2010 01:46

there is an interesting article on that on wikipedia.org, and and the nasa website on this…
and there is also a star like this one called algol the "demon star"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_710
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol

but im a bit confused about something whqat exactly is, and the location on this star, there isnt much info on wikipedia on this one…could one of you guys fill me on this? thanks!

Re: Nemesis/Potential Doomsday Object Found - Don't Worry Though

Alene Y 16 Mar 2010 06:45

Hi Bryan,
Algol, also called Beta Persei, is 93 light years away, in the constellation Perseus. The Arabic name, "al Ghul" (related to our word "ghoul"), means "the demon," from a longer phrase that refers to the demon's head. In Greek mythology, Algol represents the Medusa's head with which Perseus turned Cetus to stone. There is a fair amount of information at this link:
http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/algol.html