Another weather balloon?

[Rhodes]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-planet-sized-object-spotted-near-mercury-154443870.html

Funny this did not been notice here!

[Torplexed]

This is just some blogger that happens to be referenced by Yahoo. And the name of his blog, "the Sideshow", should be a good clue as to what his aim is.

I'm guessing it was a slow news day so they found something to hype up. The whole adding open ended non-specific statements to hint at something exotic going on without actually saying so outright is a fairly standard tactic to try and create interest from what is otherwise a decidedly uninteresting topic for most people (remember that the job of the people writing it is to get hits to make money).

[mapuc]

I have seen this on youtube.

Markus

[mapuc]

It's an UFO* until the scientist and NASA finds out what it is.

Everyone knows what UFO stand for undentified flying.... and this object is a UFO

It seems that it's not an UFO anymore

"The mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we're seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury's wake, "where the planet was on the previous day," as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path"

Markus

[TLAM Strike]

Mysterious planet-sized object spotted near Mercury

:nope::nope::nope:

That means absolutely nothing; A planet can be any size. All a planet really has to do it dominate its orbit...

:nope::nope::nope: