Re: The 12th Planet is Diffuse?

Article: <[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: The 12th Planet is Diffuse?
Date: 18 Apr 1998 03:13:33 GMT

In article <[email protected]> Greg Neill writes:
> So, smaller than "that pip pluto" and 2nd magnitude.  That is, it 
> would most certainly *not* appear as a diffuse object, but rather 
> a very bright point-source.  So it should be trivial to spot with the
> naked eye.  

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And where do you get that it would be a bright point source!  Has this
ever been presented to you as a star?  It has NOT.  It is not even
close enough to your Sun to be reflecting light, as do your planets,
even your distant planets in the outer orbits.  It is smaller than
Pluto, in appearance, being farther out.  It is not reflecting light
from the Sun as do your close in planets.  It is not burning to the
extent that visible stars known to you do.  It has, unlike any other
close body you are familiar with, a diffuse glow over it's surface,
which does NOT produce an intense pinpoint of light, but DOES produce a
uniform glow over what is a small surface as viewed from your Earth at
this time.
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