Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism

Astronomy.com ^ | 08/03/18 | Jake Parks

[JimSEA]

Brown dwarf / giant free roaming planet. “How did it form?” That will be a fascinating question/ task.

[Redcitizen]

Exo planet ping. Let the Niburu rumors begin!

[P.O.E.]

Free range & organic:

[ClearCase_guy]

[Moonman62]

“This object is right at the boundary between a planet and a brown dwarf, or ‘failed star,’ and is giving us some surprises that can potentially help us understand magnetic processes on both stars and planets,” said Arizona State University’s Melodie Kao, who led the new study on SIMP, in a press release.

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Considering this new observation I think they need to change their definition of a brown dwarf. This isn’t a planet.

[Moonman62]

More information on this object:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMP_J013656.5%2B093347

More info on T class brown dwarfs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Class_T:_methane_dwarfs

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My guess is these are some crooked researchers figuring they’ll get more money if they call it a planet.

[Bob434]

[[Astronomers discover a free-range planet with incredible magnetism]]

Oh swell- so it’s like 3 times more expensive than farm raised planets?

[M Kehoe]

So THAT’S the Mother wheel Farakan was talking about.

5.56mm

[snoringbear]

“For comparison, the hottest planet in our solar system is Venus.”

Wonder why Mercury isn’t the hottest? It’s the closest to our sun....

[jpsb]

Mercury do not have much of an atmosphere so it’s heat readily escapes into space. Venus on the other hand has a thick atmosphere that has a lot of CO2 so Venus retains it’s heat (energy).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Redcitizen. Incredible magnetism? It's Planet Trump!

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Earlier on FR:

• VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse [2018]

Rest of the keyword:

• MARS AND EARTH MAY NOT HAVE BEEN EARLY NEIGHBORS [2017]
• Rogue planet could bring end of days this weekend [2017]
• NASA says mysterious object hurtling towards Earth could be an asteroid or a comet [2017]
• The truth about exoplanets [2016]
• Did Jupiter Bumped The Giant Planet From Our Solar System? [2015]
• A close call of 0.8 light years [Nibiru?] [2015]
• Lost in Space: Half of All Stars Are Rogues Between Galaxies [2014]
• Rogue Planets Could Form On Their Own in Interstellar Space [2013]
• 'Orphan' alien planet with no parent is found near Earth [2012]
• CFBDSIR2149: An Orphaned Planet Without A Parent Star (VIDEO) [2012]
• New Planet Found in Our Solar System? [2012]
• Free-floating planets in the Milky Way outnumber stars by factors of thousands [2012]
• Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets [2012]
• How Many Unbound Planets in Milky Way? [2012]
• Scientists tell of 'runaway' planets [2012]
• Many Solar System Comets May Be Sun's Stolen Goods [2012]
• How Many Loose Planets in the Milky Way? [2012]
• When Stars Play Planetary Pinball [2012]
• Giant planet ejected from the solar system [2011]
• So Many Lonely Planets with No Star to Guide Them [2011]
• 'Free-floating' planets found with no star in sight [2011]
• Lonely Rogue Worlds Surprisingly Outnumber Planets with Suns [2011]
• Mystery Planet: Is a Rogue Giant Orbiting Our Sun? [2011]
• First Alien Planet From Another Galaxy Discovered [2010]
• Neptune may have eaten a planet and stolen its moon [2010]
• Evening Lectures on Migrating Planets, Hazardous Asteroids Search [2009]
• The Curious Case of Missing Asteroids [2009]
• Were Mercury and Mars separated at birth? [2009]
• Are Jupiters Hard to Come By? [2008]
• Milky Way could hold hundreds of rogue black holes: study [2008]
• New data challenge Earth atmosphere theory [2007]
• Gas Giants Jump Into Planet Formation Early [2007]
• New insights into composition of giant planets [2006]
• Object Survives Being Swallowed by a Star [2006]
• Death Spiral: Why Theorists Can't Make Solar Systems [2006]
• Planets in all the wrong places [2006]
• Rogue Planet Find Makes Astronomers Ponder Theory [2005]
• Far-out worlds, just waiting to be found [2005]
• Spitzer Sees the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision [2005]
• Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits [2004]
• Keyword: rogueplanets

[SunkenCiv]

Venus is a relatively recent addition to our Solar System.

[Billthedrill]

“That’s no moon...”

[antidemoncrat]

If I remember correctly Immanuel Velikovsky thought Venus almost collided with Earth before being captured by the sun.

[jpsb]

LOL, you going to have to explain that one to me.

[aimhigh]

. . just 20 light-years from the Sun . .

Just??? That's quite a distance.

[Savage Beast]

I don’t want to appear immodest, but...I know how it feels.

[SunkenCiv]

Not a physical collision.

[xp38]