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november2009_june_july_2009.qxd 23/11/2009 4:37 PM Page 21 21 The Planet-X Saga 21 The Planet-X Saga The Planet X Saga: The the mass and diameter of Planet X. Nancy says true. Plenty of observatories with pretty big Scientific Arguments in a it's 4 times the radius of Earth (Jupiter is 11 'scopes remain open. Conclusion: Observatories are indeed times Earth's radius) and about 20 times as Nutshell massive (Jupiter is 310 times as massive as the closing, but only for renovation. Plenty of Earth). Hazlewood's claims are similar. Neither observatories with public access and large of them describe anything even close to a brown telescopes remain open. Therefore there is no Continued from Page 19 dwarf. government conspiracy to close telescopes Also, even an old, dim brown dwarf puts down to prevent people from seeing Planet X. There were two big earthquakes in out light. A typical dim brown dwarf would still January 2003, both over 7 on the Richter scale. be a very bright object if it were anywhere near I am not a government disinformation agent. The PXPs went nuts about them. But look at the the inner solar system, or even located way out plot! Two magnitude 7 earthquakes in one beyond Pluto. I even show my math! Remember Just about every purveyor of Planet X month means you'd expect 24 in a year, right? too that a brown dwarf will still reflect sunlight has said at some time that I am a liar, or Well, you can see that 24 magnitude 7 (like Jupiter and the other planets do), making it deluded, or a paid NASA or NSA or CIA earthquakes per year is just about right given the even brighter. So if Planet X were a brown disinformation agent. James McCanney told a earthquake history. So once again, by bringing dwarf, it would have been obvious in the sky bare-faced lie on the radio, saying I have a this data to everyone's attention, the Planet X years ago. "mansion" and a "luxurious office" (it's a lie people are shooting themselves in the foot. Using the term to describe Planet X is because he doesn't know what kind of home or Conclusion: there no more earthquakes simply wrong. I suspect they might use the term office I have, therefore he knows he cannot than usual, and therefore earthquakes cannot be to sound more scientific, but again, as always, make any conclusions about them, and therefore used to support the existence of Planet X. they wind up making themselves look foolish. he lied). I laughed out loud when I first heard Conclusion: Nancy Lieder and Mark him say this; I was sitting in my "luxurious" There has been a lot of weird weather lately. Hazlewood do not understand brown dwarfs at 10x12 foot office that I shared with a coworker. all, and saying Planet X is a brown dwarf is It was so cramped we couldn't both push our Another big claim is that there has been actually further evidence that they don't know chairs back at the same time. a lot of unusual weather going on; tornadoes, what they are talking about, and that Planet X The assertion that I am some kind of droughts, storms, etc. Like earthquakes and doesn't exist. spook is silly. Think about it: I am a solar flares, every time it rains it seems like it professional astronomer, with a traceable must be due to Planet X. Observatories are not being closed history of doing relatively good science (I have First off, surprise! The weather isn't all suspiciously. a dozen or so journal articles with my name on that weird. We are coming off of an El Nino, them). How much money do you think I could which is a weather pattern that disrupts climates Many of the PXPs (notably Mr. make if I started a cult about Planet X? I could across the world. Also, we are now into Hazlewood) have been claiming that make as much money just as easily by writing a springtime, when things like tornadoes are observatories around the world are being closed book and getting on talk shows. I could name common. Seeing tornadoes in Texas and "suspiciously" (ever noticed how nothing can my price to Fox TV. So there is no monetary Oklahoma is not only not unusual, but is just happen in a conspiracy theory?). They incentive for me to debunk Planet X, unless I expected! claim to have a long list of them, though I have truly believe it isn't real. If you think the There have been some records broken yet to see them actually post such a list. They do government would give me more money than this year, but there are weather records broken mention such observatories as Griffith in Los Fox TV, then you are beyond any logic I can every year. This is exactly the same sort of bad Angeles. Why are they closing? Because, claim provide you. logic used in the earthquake argument, and is the PXPs, they don't want the public to see Ironically, and in fact, all the Planet X just as wrong. Even a cursory web search yields Planet X through these observatories. If the purveyors are known liars, or at least deceptive. lots of pages about the odd weather we get as El public demands to see this planet through the Since they have no evidence I am a Nino departs. powerful telescopes, then the jig, as they say, is disinformation agent, and yet they still call me And even if it were true, how could the up. So the government is closing them down. that, they are knowingly lying. They may weather possibly be to tied to an incoming But this makes no sense whatsoever. First, as I believe it's true, but they have no evidence of it, planet? If you assume electromagnetic forces, have shown, Planet X, if it existed, would be a and so cannot honestly state that claim as truth. we'd see huge changes in our aurora before we'd pretty bright object. If we believe Nancy Lieder, Hazlewood has claimed on many see changes in the weather, and we see no such then it should be so bright it would be visible occasions that I spend time fighting him changes. If it were gravitational, then there even if you wear sunglasses. Mark Hazlewood because he is "on to something". That's a silly would be countless other, far larger effects. claims it's still far away, but even if it were years statement. Imagine yelling a racial slur at Long before the weather were disrupted, we'd away, it would be easily spotted in a telescope someone on the street. Don't you think they see changes in the Moon's orbit that were so big of very modest size; certainly in the range of would get angry, and perhaps even argue about they would be unmistakable. They would thousands of amateur instruments. So closing it? Wouldn't you, if someone attacked certainly throw off the timings of eclipses, and public observatories makes no sense. something you loved for no reason and without we'll see on May 15th that there will be a lunar Moreover, the only way to keep this any merit to their arguments? eclipse right on schedule. quiet would be to close all telescopes with The claims that I am deluded are just as Conclusion: the weather isn't any public access. Every single one. Yet there are silly. I actually have evidence that what I say is weirder than it usually is at the end of an El hundreds of observatories still open. I recently correct, and also show exactly where Lieder and Nino, so the claims of weird weather are wrong. used some 'scopes at the Buehler Observatory in the others are wrong. All they can do against me Fort Lauderdale, for example, when it was open is cry about a government conspiracy with no Brown dwarfs are not at all the way Planet X for public night. Chabot Space and Science evidence whatsoever. So do you agree with people describe. Center in Oakland, California, has several someone with lots of evidence, or someone with telescopes the public can use. The list goes on none whatsoever, just hearsay, deception, and/or A brown dwarf is an object that is for hundreds of observatories that are not only outright lies? something bigger than a planet, but smaller than open, but actively showing the skies to the Conclusion: There is no evidence that I a star. An object with more than about 0.077 public. am anything but who I say I am: a professional times the Sun's mass (about 80 times Jupiter's I expect PXPs will then claim that the astronomer who loves astronomy, and doesn't mass) will ignite nuclear fusion in the core, observatories remaining open simply won't like hearing the Planet X purveyors misleading making it a full-blown star. The lower mass show Planet X to the public. Then why close others about it. Slurs (and let's face it, slander) limit is somewhat less clear, but we can safely any at all? Again, it makes no sense. Either all against me do not support the existence of say that Jupiter is below it. Even if we call observatories get closed, or none does. They Planet X. Jupiter a brown dwarf, it is still far larger than might claim that only observatories with big what Nancy Lieder and Mark Hazlewood say is enough 'scopes were shut down, but that's not Visit www.badastronomy.com