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Curious if anyone has heard of Gill Broussard and his research on Planet X that he calls Planet -7x, which he believes is the fiery red dragon of Revelation. I feel like I may have mentioned him awhile ago. I’ve been keeping an eye on him from time to time over the last few years. His name came up when I had heard of Dr. Robert S. Harrington, the chief astronomer of the U.S. Naval Observatory who died mysteriously just before he was going to publicize his research on Planet X.
Harrington worked at the USNO. Another astronomer there, James W. Christy, consulted with him after discovering bulges in the images of Pluto, which turned out to be Pluto’s satellite Charon.[1] For this reason, some consider Harrington to be a co-discoverer of Charon,[2] although Christy usually gets sole credit. By the laws of physics, it is easy to determine the mass of a binary system based on its orbital period, so Harrington was the first to calculate the mass of the Pluto-Charon system, which was lower than even the lowest previous estimates of Pluto’s mass.
For much of his career, he proposed the existence of a Planet X beyond Pluto and supported searches for it, collaborating initially with T. C. (Tom) Van Flandern.[1]
Six months before Harrington’s death, E. Myles Standish had used data from Voyager 2’s 1989 flyby of Neptune, which had revised the planet’s total mass downward by 0.5%—an amount comparable to the mass of Mars[3]—to recalculate its gravitational effect on Uranus.[4] When Neptune’s newly determined mass was used in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Developmental Ephemeris (JPL DE), the supposed discrepancies in the Uranian orbit, and with them the need for a Planet X, vanished.[5] There are no discrepancies in the trajectories of any space probes such as Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, and Voyager 2 that can be attributed to the gravitational pull of a large undiscovered object in the outer Solar System.[6] Although most astronomers agree that Planet X, as Lowell defined it, does not exist,[7] as of January 2016 there is speculation concerning Planet Nine.
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