[SunkenCiv]

well said.

Newfound Planetary System Has 'Hometown' Look
June 13, 2002
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_133.html

"The star, 55 Cancri in the constellation Cancer, was already known to have one planet, announced by Butler and Marcy in 1996. That planet is a gas giant slightly smaller than the mass of Jupiter and whips around the star in 14.6 days at a distance only one-tenth that from Earth to the Sun."

Its origin is either capture, or ejected from its star; a satellite in prograde rotation will experience a momentum transfer from the parent body, meaning a very short timeframe in orbit around 55 Cancri.

[mmercier]

Entire continents and planets are formed in days not millennia.

We have no conceptualization of how rapid things occur. Things may set staid for a billion years, and be reset in an entire new staid format in mere minutes...

I am a believer in immediate upheaval and contravention, especially where nature is concerned.

Belief that all change is gradual is a survival mechanism. Creative force (God) acts so fast that it is over before one can realize there is a change. Entire cosmos form in seconds, if it were not for the slowness of our perception we would see this.