Guest guest Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Jaya Jagannatha Dear Ramadasji, Namaste I found this article off the NASA News service (attached below). The planet is currently 97 astronomical units (for comparison Pluto is 40AU). Could you please share with us if there are any refernces to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto in the shastras. I do understand that the ancient Rishis did not use outer planets for Jyotish, but I was interested in you refernce to Pluto as Praja Pathi. Could you please expand on this for my own learning. As regards a name for the planet - the media have latched on to XENA, but the Astronomical community has identified it as 2003 UB313 Many thanks Bipin "10th Planet" Discovered July 29, 2005: "It's definitely bigger than Pluto." So says Dr. Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology who announced today the discovery of a new planet in the outer solar system. The planet, which hasn't been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently about 97 times farther from the sun than Earth, or 97 Astronomical Units (AU). For comparison, Pluto is 40 AU from the sun. Right: An artist's concept of the new planet. [More] This places the new planet more or less in the Kuiper Belt, a dark realm beyond Neptune where thousands of small icy bodies orbit the sun. The planet appears to be typical of Kuiper Belt objects--only much bigger. Its sheer size in relation to the nine known planets means that it can only be classified as a planet itself, Brown says. Backyard astronomers with large telescopes can see the new planet. But don't expect to be impressed: It looks like a dim speck of light, visual magnitude 19, moving very slowly against the starry background. "It is currently almost directly overhead in the early-morning eastern sky in the constellation Cetus," notes Brown. The planet was discovered by, in addition to Brown, Chad Trujillo, of the Gemini Observatory in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and David Rabinowitz, of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. They first photographed the new planet with the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope on October 31, 2003. The object was so far away, however, that its motion was not detected until they reanalyzed the data in January of this year. In the last seven months, the scientists have been studying the planet to better estimate its size and its motions. Right: The new planet, circled in white, moves across a field of stars on Oct. 21, 2003. The three photos were taken about 90 minutes apart. Image credit: Samuel Oschin Telescope, Palomar Observatory. [More] "We are 100 percent confident that this is the first object bigger than Pluto ever found in the outer solar system," Brown adds. Telescopes have not yet revealed the planet's disk. To estimate how big it is, the astronomers must rely on measurements of the planet's brightness. Like all planets, this new one presumably shines by reflecting sunlight. The bigger the planet, generally speaking, the bigger the reflection. The reflectance, the fraction of light that bounces off the planet, is not yet known. Nevertheless, it is possible to set limits on the planet's diameter: "Even if it reflected 100 percent of the light reaching it, it would still be as big as Pluto," says Brown. Pluto is 1400 miles (2300 km) wide. "I'd say it's probably [about] one and a half times the size of Pluto, but we're not sure." The size of the planet is further limited by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which has already proved its mettle in studying the heat of dim, faint, faraway objects such as the Kuiper-belt bodies. Because Spitzer has been unable to detect the new planet, the overall diameter must be less than about 2000 miles (3200 km), says Brown. The planet's temporary name is 2003 UB313. A permanent name has been proposed by the discoverers to the International Astronomical Union, and they are awaiting the decision of this body before announcing the name. Stay tuned! http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/29jul_planetx.htm - Ramadas Rao jyotisa Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:27 PM Re: 10th planet ` ïI ra"veNÔ gué_yae nm> om çré räghavendra gurubhyo namaù ` nmae naray[ay, om namo näräyaëäya| Dear Hari and others, What is this 10th planet I read about ? What are its qualities ? Is this mentioned in any Classics including Varaha Mihira's Brihat Samhita ? When our ancient Maharshis have told us about 7 planets + 2 Chaya Grahas Rahu and Ketu, from where this 10th planet came ? What is its name ?Whether any of the Maharshis predicted about this invention ?What is its distance to earth ? Is it far away from Pluto ( Praja Pathi ) ? With Shri Hari Vaayu Naama Smarana, Ramadas Rao. Jyotisa Shisya <achyutagaddi wrote: ||om brihaspataye namah|| Dear Sanjay, When I was reading about the discovery of the 10th planet orbiting at an angle of 45 degrees to the plane of orbit of the other planets, the discovery of 12 moons of Saturn that orbit in a direction opposite to the other moons (Saturn now has 47 moons currently), I came across an old story of the shoemaker levy comet crashing into Jupiter (1994). What I am wondering is that does this collision modify the properties of Jupiter as defined in the classics? Admittedly this is a grey area since the why and how significant is this can be asked. Since you have been practicing jyotisa from a young age, I would like to know whether you have observed any qualitative change about Guru post shoemaker levy collision? Does Varahamihira comment on comets crashing into other planets? just loud thinking at Guna... regards Hari Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messagesOnly in Mail: http://in.mail. ******************************************************************* The e-mail and attachments are confidential and intended only for selected recipients. If you have received it in error, you may not in any way disclose or rely on the contents. You may not keep, copy or distribute the e-mail. Should you receive it, immediately notify the sender of the error and delete the e-mail.Also note that this form of communication is not secure, it can be intercepted, and may not necessarily be free of errors and viruses in spite of reasonable efforts to secure this medium. ******************************************************************* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 Jaya Jagannatha Dear Hari, Namaste You presented a very thought provoking question. Im sure Sanjayji will enlighten us further. My take on this is that even planets have a physical and a non-physical or spiritual nature, so when the comet crashed into Jupiter, it may have just altered some physical attributes of Jupiter, but I doubt the spiritual nature embodied in Brihaspati would not have been affected. Im not sure if im correct in saying that Brihaspati's quality is eternal All the Best Bipin ||om brihaspataye namah|| Dear Sanjay, When I was reading about the discovery of the 10th planet orbiting at an angle of 45 degrees to the plane of orbit of the other planets, the discovery of 12 moons of Saturn that orbit in a direction opposite to the other moons (Saturn now has 47 moons currently), I came across an old story of the shoemaker levy comet crashing into Jupiter (1994). What I am wondering is that does this collision modify the properties of Jupiter as defined in the classics? Admittedly this is a grey area since the why and how significant is this can be asked. Since you have been practicing jyotisa from a young age, I would like to know whether you have observed any qualitative change about Guru post shoemaker levy collision? Does Varahamihira comment on comets crashing into other planets? just loud thinking at Guna... regards Hari Free antispam, antivirus and 1GB to save all your messagesOnly in Mail: http://in.mail. ******************************************************************* The e-mail and attachments are confidential and intended only for selected recipients. If you have received it in error, you may not in any way disclose or rely on the contents. You may not keep, copy or distribute the e-mail. Should you receive it, immediately notify the sender of the error and delete the e-mail.Also note that this form of communication is not secure, it can be intercepted, and may not necessarily be free of errors and viruses in spite of reasonable efforts to secure this medium. ******************************************************************* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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