Post by MCDemuth on Apr 20, 2018 0:21:51 GMT
Mysterious lost planet a lot like Nibiru really did exist in our solar system, scientists say
Wednesday 18 Apr 2018 9:39 am
You might think the planet Nibiru was little more than a meme dreamed up to get clicks, like or views on the internet.
But it turns out there really was a lost planet in our solar system – and now we’ve found traces of it.
Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth about a decade ago may be evidence that another world once roamed our solar system, according to a study published Tuesday.
Researchers from Switzerland, France and Germany examined diamonds found inside the Almahata Sitta meteorite and concluded they were most likely formed by a proto-planet at least 4.55 billion years ago.
We demonstrate that these large diamonds cannot be the result of a shock but rather of growth that has taken place within a planet,’ he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Switzerland.
Gillet, a planetary scientist at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said researchers calculated a pressure of 200,000 bar (2.9 million psi) would be needed to form such diamonds, suggesting the mystery planet was as least as big as Mercury, possibly even Mars.
Scientists have long theorized that the early solar system once contained many more planets – some of which were likely little more than a mass of molten magma. One of these embryo planets – dubbed Theia – is believed to have slammed into a young Earth, ejecting a large amount of debris that later formed the moon.
‘What we’re claiming here is that we have in our hands a remnant of this first generation of planets that are missing today because they were destroyed or incorporated in a bigger planet,’ Gillet said.
metro.co.uk/2018/04/18/mysterious-lost-planet-lot-like-nibiru-really-exist-solar-system-scientists-say-7476559/
Wednesday 18 Apr 2018 9:39 am
You might think the planet Nibiru was little more than a meme dreamed up to get clicks, like or views on the internet.
But it turns out there really was a lost planet in our solar system – and now we’ve found traces of it.
Fragments of a meteorite that fell to Earth about a decade ago may be evidence that another world once roamed our solar system, according to a study published Tuesday.
Researchers from Switzerland, France and Germany examined diamonds found inside the Almahata Sitta meteorite and concluded they were most likely formed by a proto-planet at least 4.55 billion years ago.
We demonstrate that these large diamonds cannot be the result of a shock but rather of growth that has taken place within a planet,’ he told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Switzerland.
Gillet, a planetary scientist at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, said researchers calculated a pressure of 200,000 bar (2.9 million psi) would be needed to form such diamonds, suggesting the mystery planet was as least as big as Mercury, possibly even Mars.
Scientists have long theorized that the early solar system once contained many more planets – some of which were likely little more than a mass of molten magma. One of these embryo planets – dubbed Theia – is believed to have slammed into a young Earth, ejecting a large amount of debris that later formed the moon.
‘What we’re claiming here is that we have in our hands a remnant of this first generation of planets that are missing today because they were destroyed or incorporated in a bigger planet,’ Gillet said.
metro.co.uk/2018/04/18/mysterious-lost-planet-lot-like-nibiru-really-exist-solar-system-scientists-say-7476559/
Diamonds in Meteorite May Hail from Our Ancient Solar System
April 18, 2018 06:59am ET
The diamond meteorite appears to have originated on a protoplanet between the size of the moon and Mars that collided with other objects during the first 10 million years of the solar system and no longer exists as a whole, according to a statement about the recent study.
www.space.com/40333-meteorite-diamonds-from-newborn-solar-system.html
Hmm...
Maybe that asteroid belt of ours, was once a planet after all...
, I've thought that.