Re: 10th Solar System Planet Found Larger than Pluto

What the heck ever happened to our crack teams of NEO wizards that
supposedly had been looking specifically for such items as potentially
nasty objects that supposedly have been of those much smaller as having
been nearly coal-black and thus so much harder to spot than the likes
of an icy Sedna or of this 10th plant that's apparently much larger
than pluto?

Perhaps this topic should become one of good-news, bad-news; 10th
planet, protomoon or dead Earth

Good news; 10th planet (not even including the fairly massive
protoplanet or possibly protomoon Sedna of 1800 km at 2+ g/cm3 that
should go into terraforming Venus) that's supposedly a bit more massive
and perhaps nearly as dense as Pluto means many things to different
folks.

First of all, it's super terrific to know about such items of any
potential 3400 km size, as perhaps made of a whole lot more than just
H2O/ice and CO2/ice. Thus even the initial estimate of 1.6+ g/cm3
(considering the overall potential volume of a 3400 km sphere) still
seems rather impressive for something so large and actually at times 36
AU as not all that much further away than Pluto.

Bad news; What this actually represents is that of such icy items much
smaller than Sedna are clearly not being so easily identified, thus
untracked and/or untrackable at the current levels of applied
technology and, who the hell knows what's actually out there as to run
into. Obviously if a Kuiper belt or whatever Oort cloud worth of some
item much bigger than a breadbox manages to get with some terminal
velocity, as then as such it becomes somewhat comet like. Even though
the comet core can be relatively small it can be more easily identified
and thus tracked and subsequently avoided and/or plotted as to exactly
when that little sucker is going to pass nearby, or God forbid impact
mother Earth.

However, not everything Kuiper/Oort is going to be that of such a slow
moving icy snowball of such a low density object, whereas the likes of
a few 8+ g/cm3 class of somewhat metallic infused objects as merely
cloaked in a layer of ice might actually be the more common though
smaller of items which we obviously haven't a freaking clue about any
of those suckers as having our name (Earth) engraved into their
potentially lethal high density surface. I'll have to guess the good
news about the billions if not greater numbers of such potentially
Earth-killer items available, is that because we're continually at war
over the remainders of fossil energy resources and otherwise as a
direct result of our own resident warlord policy that sucks, chances
are fairly good that much like those invisible/stealth WMD, there's
probably absolutely nothing that we could do about moderating our
impending collateral damage and carnage should one of those nearly
coal-black items have taken a slow but deliberate trek worth of a sneak
attack or sucker-punch notion upon merging with our planet, or even as
per impacting our extremely nearby moon isn't exactly playing it safe,
especially should a few thousand or possibly a mega tonne worth of
lunar basalt get displaced and thus most likely headed for pulverising
Earth could actually be nearly as bad off as for being the primary
incoming intended target.

Dead Earth; The arrival of a mere m3 at 8 g/cm3 is going to leave a
fairly impressive impact crater. At a mere 1000 m3 and 8 g/cm3 (8,000
tonnes) it's going to hurt real bad. Given a cubic kilometer item of 8
g/cm3 which obviously becomes worth 8 gigatonnes could still remain as
below our best radar and most other forms of such WMD detection, that
is until it's a wee bit too late and, for that size and likely final
velocity of such a nasty Kuiper/Oort item we can kiss the likes of
Texas goodbye and plan upon losing sight of our sun for another year or
so. Thus it seems we need to have established those energy efficient
robotic deployed SAR apertures, of an efficient and highly effective
imaging detection method as deployed upon our moon, along with a
terrestrial VLA as having their receiving apertures placed 384,000 km
away should give us the sort of imaging resolution advantage worth
having. That is if we ever expect to long-range detect upon the 1 m3
sorts of nasty items that'll either have to be carefully avoided in the
near future and/or perhaps diverted into our sun if not intentionally
impacted into our moon for safe keeping, thus somewhat artificially
creating a bit more lunar atmosphere at the same time.

What's still keeping us from robotically deploying such small and
energy efficient radar image receiving apertures upon our moon?
a. we don't seem to actually have a viable fly-by-rocket lander
b. our government is still covering their perpetrated cold-war butts
c. we're too well snookered and thus easily dumbfounded to actually
care about the truth
d. folks would much rather spend hundreds of billions if not a trillion
for getting humans onto Mars
e. we should not worry ourselves about matters of which we obviously
can't do anything constructive about
f. all of the above
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Don't look: in spite of the orchestrated status quo, it seems there's
been other life upon Venus
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
Russian/China LSE-CM/ISS (Lunar Space Elevator) as situated within the
ME-L1/EM-L2 sweet-spot
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/lunar-space-elevator.htm
Venus ETs, Earthly ETs plus a few other somewhat testy topics by; Brad
Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-topics.htm

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