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Tiny fireball exoplanet completes one year in 8.5 hours
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| 19th August 2013
| Neil McAllister
Posted on 08/20/2013 11:32:49 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wow; that would make you grow old pretty quick!!!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I'd be curious to learn what the planet is made of.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:34:32 AM PDT
by
1rudeboy
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’m thinking that’s where liberals and Imams are sent when they finally quit polluting earth.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:36:14 AM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Kind of like the sun has a moon
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:37:05 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: 1rudeboy
gold!
100% gold planet
just kidding...
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:37:47 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I wonder if it use to orbit further out but as it encountered friction it spiraled in. It’s bound to just evaporate away in the end.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:38:49 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If liberals are not screaming you are doing it wrong!t happened world wide.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If you're around one of those brown dwarfs, then you can get as close in as just a few days That's RACIST!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“...forty times closer...”
Why do reporters no longer know the words “fortieth,” “thousandth,” “half,” etc.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:41:51 AM PDT
by
Arthur McGowan
(If you're FOR sticking scissors in a female's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Let's go there, in less than 30 hours 0bamas term will be over.
And if Hill wins, we only have to suffer her for 3 days max.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:42:51 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Gee, it would sure get old celebrating every-bodies birthday every eight and 1/2 hours....
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:45:20 AM PDT
by
apillar
To: 1rudeboy
They have calculated that it has to be at least as dense as solid iron. What I cannot find is a calculation for its velocity.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:49:05 AM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: Arthur McGowan
Haf to mayk it ees.. eys.. mor eesy for da genral poplace ta reed.
Besides, saying “1/40th the distance” isn’t nearly as cool (er smrt) as saying “40 times closer”.
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posted on
08/20/2013 11:52:46 AM PDT
by
TheZMan
(Buy more ammo.)
To: 1rudeboy
I'd be curious to learn what the planet is made of. Something that doesn't vaporize at high temps. I'm figuring ice cream is right out as a candidate.
/johnny
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If it is indeed travelling the same distance around its sun as Mercury travels around ours, then this planet is moving at a speed that is 4% of the speed of light.
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posted on
08/20/2013 12:13:26 PM PDT
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kidd
To: 1rudeboy
I'd be curious to learn what the planet is made of. A lot of molten something.
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posted on
08/20/2013 12:18:36 PM PDT
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Bloody Sam Roberts
(So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sounds like a good location for a Lake of Fire.
To: 1rudeboy
Nickel + Iron in all likelihood.
To: kidd
a cubed = p squared. If the period is 8 hours, the a is around 800 thousand miles.
Given a star the size of the sun, that’s only about 350 thousand miles from the surface of the star. circumference of the orbit would be 628,000 miles/hour or 290k m/s. So about a tenth of a percent of the speed of light.
So not quite relativistic...
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