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Supportive Evidence for a Brown Dwarf Solar Companion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2016

John J. Matese
John J. Matese*
Affiliation:
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA 70504-4210, USA

Abstract

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We have previously given evidence based on Oort cloud comet orbital elements which suggested that there may be a Jovian-mass brown dwarf in our solar system. An extended cometary database is now available. The analyses have been repeated and we find that the set of statistically significant correlated anomalies is enhanced. We also respond to unsupported objections that have been raised to this conjecture. If real, the wide-binary object would constitute a natural dynamical intermediary between gas giant planetary objects and isolated objects.

Type
Part II: Progress in the theory of planet formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 202: Planetary Systems in the Universe – Observation, Formation and Evolution , 2004 , pp. 214 - 216
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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