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[QUOTE="mfb, post: 5870074, member: 405866"] Please open new threads for questions like these. Tidal effects depend strongly on the distance between the objects. A planet-scale mass, more distant than the Sun, would have a completely negligible effect on tides. Venus and Mars have much larger effects (as they come closer), and they are completely negligible already. In addition, if it would always be in the direction of Sun, it would just be added to the Sun's effect on the tides - just a several million times smaller. We would see an effect on orbits, however - the orbital period of Earth and all outer planets would be shorter than expected, and the orbits of Mercury, Venus and Mars would be perturbed when they are close to this planet. This would be immediately obvious with the precision of today's measurements. Such an additional planet wouldn't be in a stable orbit either, it couldn't stay there for any relevant timescale. Oh, and we have multiple space probes which would have seen anything there. [/QUOTE]
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