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Rogue Planet Find Makes Astronomers Ponder Theory
CNN / Reuters ^
| October 5, 2000
| Maggie Fox
Posted on 12/28/2005 1:02:23 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Eighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all the rules about being born from a central, controlling sun may force a rethink about how planets form, astronomers said on Thursday... "The formation of young, free-floating, planetary-mass objects like these is difficult to explain by our current models of how planets form," Zapatero-Osorio said... They are not linked to one another in an orbit, but do move together as a cluster, she said... Many stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have formed in a similar manner to the Orion stars, she said. So there could be similar, hard-to-see planets floating around free near the Solar System.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; History; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; catastrophism; deusexmachina; immanuelvelikovsky; rogueplanet; rogueplanets; science; velikovsky; worldsincollision; xplanets
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:02:24 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
To: 75thOVI; AndrewC; Avoiding_Sulla; BenLurkin; Berosus; CGVet58; chilepepper; ckilmer; Eastbound; ...
Blast from the Past -- so old, Clinton was still president (shudder).
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:05:33 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: HOTTIEBOY
You may find this thread intresting
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:05:40 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(We do not create terrorism by fighting the terrorists. We invite terrorism by ignoring them.--GWBush)
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:11:08 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: MNJohnnie
SunkenCiv is right. It is a blast from the past. Since then some scientists have theorized that many gas giants are merely brown dwarfs that never reached the point of nuclear reaction within themselves.
There is a fine line between a massive gas giant planetary body and a brown dwarf star. Until the core reaches 18 million degrees or so, gas giants don't have the pressure to support nuclear fusion.
Interesting story nonetheless. Thanks for the ping.
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:20:50 PM PST
by
HOTTIEBOY
(If the enemy is in shooting range, so are you.)
To: HOTTIEBOY; tricky_k_1972; KevinDavis
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posted on
12/28/2005 1:47:09 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
Planet "X"?
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posted on
12/28/2005 3:04:30 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ..
Blast from the past ping...
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posted on
12/28/2005 6:18:15 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: SunkenCiv; BenLurkin
You know, it's not that hard to imagine many rogue planets cruising through space, looking for another sun to take them under their wing after their own sun disappeared.
Supposed origin of Nibiru of ancient myth, according to Sitchin. Also known as Planet X, the 12th Planet, Marduk, Planet of the Crossing, et al.
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posted on
12/28/2005 9:40:45 PM PST
by
Eastbound
(What goes around, comes around .)
To: Eastbound; BenLurkin
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posted on
12/28/2005 10:46:31 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
To: SunkenCiv
Apart from myth, it's not all that hard to imagine many rogue planets cruising through space, looking for another sun to take them under their wing after their own sun disappeared.
My point.
What think?
To: Eastbound
I'd be pretty surprised if you are wrong. My view about the asteroid bits and pieces (apparently quite a lot of it) which are in orbits out of the ecliptic is that they may be primordial, and what we call the ecliptic got that way because of captures of passing bodies, including the one we live on. :')
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posted on
12/29/2005 7:53:49 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
("In silence, and at night, the Conscience feels that life should soar to nobler ends than Power.")
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posted on
01/08/2008 11:44:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________Profile updated Sunday, December 30, 2007)
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posted on
05/19/2011 3:04:25 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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