Nelson:
There would be SOME SORT OF EVIDENCE! A planet that large would have all sorts of gravitational effects on the other planets.
Do you know anything about astronomy? About Newtonian physics?
I have no idea what you mean by 'translation' - but -
You would detect it by the effect it has on other planets. See
http://garber.simplenet.com/detect.htm
The principle is the same.
Perhaps you should not be snide with those who have studied this more than we have?
Perhaps the orbit of it make it hard to find. Remember what Banshee said?
There would be SOME SORT OF EVIDENCE! A planet that large would have all sorts of gravitational effects on the other planets.
Do you know anything about astronomy? About Newtonian physics?
A planet with this translation MUST be really far away and have an incredible orbit! How do you find a planet like that?
I have no idea what you mean by 'translation' - but -
You would detect it by the effect it has on other planets. See
Gravity, Ring Around the Rosey and Perturbing Planets
Using this principle, Marcy & Butler determined that as a planet orbited its sun the resulting graviational attraction between the two bodies would result in the star's position to be perturbed or wobble (much like when as a child you would hold your friend's hand and play Ring Around the Rosey and the two of you would stagger around some common point in the school yard). By measuring this perturbation over several years, it was calcualted as to how big and how far away a planet would have to be to generate such a wobble.
http://garber.simplenet.com/detect.htm
The principle is the same.
Perhaps we will need to wait just a little bit to find out...
Perhaps you should not be snide with those who have studied this more than we have?