A Look at Nancy's predicted (and very tardy)planet

I M Openminded

Out of the Closet - IMO reveals his true identity

Recently I was asked whether I could look at a particular coordinate near Taurus to see if anything unexpected could be seen there. (The individual who asked me has written his own description of the results of his inquiry.) Some conversation lead to my realization that Nancy Lieder was alive and well and still posting about "Planet X" or the "Twelfth Planet". I had watched Nancy's posts with some amusement a few years ago but now I was being asked to look at her specific predictions. I agreed to take a look and so far I have found nothing but previously cataloged stars in the fields that she points to in her posts. As a scientist I have, of course, looked with care at what she has said and I have put together an analysis for others to contemplate.

Letters received from various folks

My own analysis and observations

Mid-Late 2003

No Evidence for Pole Shift Seen in Movies of the Night Sky

Look for Yourselves at the Mt. Wilson Fotos

Early 2003

Lieder Followers, Look for Yourselves

Naji's March 6, 2003 image, fraud or honest mistake?

Lieder data means that PX must already be naked eye

End of 2002

Lieder Wrong Again! Watch for her planet in the evening sky

November 15 (actually 16) Naji images once again show no sign of Lieder's planet

November 11 (actually 12) Havas images again show no sign of Lieder's planet

Exact Position?

A Brief Tutorial on Astronomical Image Formation

Red Defect Not Visible in the Median Combines

A Compendium of Pixel Defects

CCD images and FWHM

Steve's October 4 Red Object

Did Steve catch a moving object ?

A Look at Steve Havas' Defects

A Look at Steve's Sept. 21, 2002 images

Mid-2002

Look for Yourselves

New: OK, The Position is out from the sun, where is Nancy's planet?

When and Where Should We Look in mid-2002?

Feb. 2002

Here is the January 5, 2002 image as originally presented

I show that Nancy is wrong, the object in her circle was there in 1955

What's so important about the difference between 11th magnitude and 20th magnitude?

So what about being able to image Pluto?

Jan. 2002

What about the January 19, 2002 OHP image?

The Best Yet illustration that Nancy is wrong about all three CCD images

Dec. 2001

First off, is it Hours or Degrees of Right Ascension?

What's this "Variance" stuff?

Why does Nancy insist that we must "look around"?

OK, Dec. 5, 2001 I took a 44 minute CCD image, where is the planet?

 

I have posted a number of comments on the sci.astro newsgroup. Here are some of those posts.

Recent analysis by others

Silk has done a great job in analyzing the December Havas images

Links to other related web pages

The Skeptical Mind

Planet X and the Pole Shift:A look at the Science behind Planet X

An interesting commented collection of early Nancy posts

Tom Smith's look at the orbit of Lieder's Planet

Guest Pages: Others have written short essays about some of Nancy's ideas and have allowed me to make them available here:

What about Nancy's Gravity? (by Greg Neill)

What's this about the Moon slowing down in its orbit? (by Craig Markwardt)

An independent analysis of Nancy's pages

And another independent analysis (by Idont)

And in conclusion:

Summary of my thoughts about all this

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