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Originally Posted by agingjb
Is there a conspiracy?
I do wonder whether there is a conspiracy to ignore the continuing detection of numerous solar system objects at every distance from NEOs out to the Kuiper belt, to ignore just how faint and small these objects are, and so to deduce that any really substantial object in a solar orbit which would enter the inner solar system within a few years would have shown up long ago.
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Um... say what? Is the conspiracy to ignore the dangers of possible collision threats or to ignore how remotely unlikely such collisions might be?
We don't need Nibiru - one of the Horseshoe asteroids needs only the tiniest of nudges to perturb it's orbit into one that intersects Earth. It could happen well around the orbital track from Earth & so we wouldn't notice until very late in the day when we realised that instead of achieving perihelion a few thousand km's out it was going to keep coming.
The unusual we'd probably see a long way off - who's watching the horseshoes?
If you're unsure what Horseshoe orbits are check
Asteroid 3753 (1986TO) or
54509 YORP achieves close approach in a couple of months time... 3573 is supposed to be something like 5Km's across - should make a tidy splash.
More reading at
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2004/pdf/1565.pdf
Seems to be enough to worry about with real threats rather than those coming out of legend & myth.