To: SunkenCiv
There seem to be an inordinate number of "hot Jupiters" out there. Our colder gasbags -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune -- may be the anomalies.
5 posted on
09/15/2006 9:14:45 PM PDT by
Publius
("Death to traitors." -- Lafayette Baker)
To: Publius
We are blessed to live in such an amazing Universe.
L
6 posted on
09/15/2006 9:16:52 PM PDT by
Lurker
(islam is not a religion. It's the new face of Fascism in our time and we ignore it at our peril.)
To: Publius
The usual method used to detect planets isn't very good at finding small ones. So the 200+ systems known have at least one big-a'd planet (or brown dwarf). So the data isn't sufficient to make the determination of normal. ;')
7 posted on
09/15/2006 9:24:28 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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