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Huge Alien Planet Has a Mysterious Hot Spot
space.com ^
| 10/19/10
Posted on 10/20/2010 5:37:53 PM PDT by KevinDavis
A huge alien planet has a strange hot spot on its side, and astronomers aren't sure what to make of it.
The planet, named Upsilon Andromedae b, is a so-called "hot Jupiter" — a scorching gas giant. It is also tidally locked, meaning that one side is perpetually boiling under its parent star's fierce glare.
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TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: space; upsilonandromedaeb; xplanets
To: LucyT; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; HighWheeler; ChuckHam; Elderberry; ColdOne; Tolkien; ...
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:39:03 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(President Obama: The Crybaby in Chief...)
To: KevinDavis
the atmosphere is probably frozen solid on the backside, I mean dark side
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:39:16 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: KevinDavis
Geez. Another story about Michelle Obama.
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:42:00 PM PDT
by
La Lydia
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:43:06 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013- The end of an error.)
To: KevinDavis
a factory causing global warming. unless they buy licenses from al gore, they will drown.
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:44:27 PM PDT
by
JimWayne
To: La Lydia
Using the term Hot and FLOTUS in the same sentence stretches credulity
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:44:55 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: La Lydia; GeronL
Geez. Another story about Michelle Obama with a hotspot on her backside.Prolly just a BOIL.
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:49:21 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(wogga la hooga)
To: bigheadfred
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:52:56 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: KevinDavis
Galactic cattle flatulence.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
10/20/2010 5:55:45 PM PDT
by
wku man
(Steel yourselves, patriots, and be ready. Won't be long now....)
To: GeronL; KevinDavis
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posted on
10/20/2010 6:01:26 PM PDT
by
Monkey Face
(Gravity always gets me down.)
To: KevinDavis
it’s not a planet.
it’s a ship from a space based civilization and scientists just spotted the exhaust vent
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posted on
10/20/2010 6:50:45 PM PDT
by
sten
To: rdl6989; annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Thanks rdl6989 and kevindavis!
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posted on
10/20/2010 7:40:17 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: KevinDavis
Huge Alien Planet Has a Mysterious Hot SpotBefore reading the article, I figured this was gonna be just another liberal hit piece about an Overweight Undocumented planet experiencing Universal Warming...
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posted on
10/20/2010 7:54:13 PM PDT
by
FDNYRHEROES
(In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
To: KevinDavis
I have devoted my life to the hot spots here on this planet!
But we must keep looking up!
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posted on
10/21/2010 4:33:29 AM PDT
by
Young Werther
("Quae cum ita sunt" Since these things are so!)
To: GeronL
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posted on
10/21/2010 7:31:37 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
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