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A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without A Star
Science Daily ^ | 09 October 2013

Posted on 10/10/2013 12:49:33 AM PDT by zeestephen

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To: daku
Planet Emo

It looks like this:


21 posted on 10/10/2013 4:00:17 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: SatinDoll

system, or a death star!!,....””

Just what I thought!!!

:)


22 posted on 10/10/2013 4:03:45 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: hattend

The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago
How do they know?
..........”

a guess (ignore the baloney jargon)


23 posted on 10/10/2013 4:05:04 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: Farnsworth
Read about rouge planets, from theory to fact.

As far as I know, Mars is the only rouge planet.

24 posted on 10/10/2013 4:11:52 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: zeestephen

A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without A Star
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Finally a place where Hollywood ‘stars’ are REALLY needed.


25 posted on 10/10/2013 4:14:41 AM PDT by RetSignman
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To: ClearCase_guy
And they say that last step happened 12 million years ago. Probably on a Tuesday. I'm sure how they can make that determination.

It's like the museum guard who, when asked how old the dinosaur bones were, responded "4 million and 3 years old."

When pressed on the precision of his answer, he said that when he was hired 3 years ago, they told him the bones were 4 million years old.

26 posted on 10/10/2013 4:27:06 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (Liars use facts when the truth doesn't suit their purposes.)
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To: Justa

“But seriously, at 80 light years it’s in another star’s neighborhood, not ours. It is no where near us.”

Was thinking about your comment, and the distance a light year is in miles. It’s essentially 5.88 trillion miles. So, if you could spend dollars at the speed of light, it would take a whole year to reach the amount that our present administration has added to the national debt.


27 posted on 10/10/2013 4:36:21 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Maceman
As far as I know, Mars is the only rouge planet.

Damn, beat me to it again.

28 posted on 10/10/2013 4:59:52 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: SatinDoll

They were looking for brown dwarfs.

Why is the object not a small brown dwarf. That is, a star morphology not previously recognized?


29 posted on 10/10/2013 5:06:41 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: zeestephen

My guess is that, like Jupiter, it would have been destined to be a star but had insufficient mass to self ignite.


30 posted on 10/10/2013 5:09:14 AM PDT by Gulf War One
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To: bert

Brown dwarf.

31 posted on 10/10/2013 5:09:34 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

BTW......

I read a Siemens ad today that said manufacturing is comong back to America, different more productive manufacturing. Four examples were given, all in the south


32 posted on 10/10/2013 5:11:50 AM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Travon... Felony assault and battery hate crime)
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To: TangoLimaSierra
Damn, beat me to it again.

Well, all I can say is that the early bird gets the worm.

But you may find some solace in the fact that it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.

33 posted on 10/10/2013 5:17:48 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: bert

Siemens supplied the third Reich radio equipment during WWII. They used a lot of slave labor. Times have changed.


34 posted on 10/10/2013 5:21:10 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Maceman

???? A rouge planet has no solar system. Last I heard, mars was still between Earth and the asteroid belt


35 posted on 10/10/2013 5:46:17 AM PDT by Farnsworth ("The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no)
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To: zeestephen

These discoveries make stories like “When Worlds Collide” seem more reasonable.
But these planets could be explained by stellar formation phenomena - lots of gas giants form that never became stars in the stellar nurseries. So there could be trillions of them in the universe.


36 posted on 10/10/2013 7:21:18 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Farnsworth
???? A rouge planet has no solar system. Last I heard, mars was still between Earth and the asteroid belt

You must be thinking of a ROGUE planet. A ROUGE planet is just red.

37 posted on 10/10/2013 8:14:43 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: zeestephen; SunkenCiv
(((PING)))


38 posted on 10/10/2013 12:44:17 PM PDT by oxcart (Journalism [sic])
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To: kimtom
The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago.
How do they know?

They found its birth certificate in Honolulu.

39 posted on 10/10/2013 2:27:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Thanks oxcart.
 
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40 posted on 10/10/2013 8:01:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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