Massive Gas Giant in Orbit around Red Dwarf Challenges Current Models of Planet Formation

Sci-News.com ^ | October 8, 2019 | News Staff / Source [J.C. Morales et al]

[SunkenCiv]

An artist's impression of a Jupiter-like exoplanet and a cool red dwarf. Image credit: CARMENES / RenderArea / J. Bollain / C. Gallego

[SunkenCiv]

The distances being what they are, even with improvements to technology over time, oddball systems will be disproportionately discovered.

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[rfp1234]

IBTUJ

In before the Uranus jokes.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Since we clearly know everything there is to about planet formation, this system doesn’t exist. It’s an undigested bit of beef, or a fragment of underdone potato stuck in the telescope’s lens.

[SaveFerris]

[Massive Gas Giant ]

must ... resist ... jokes ...

[C210N]

What about the hillary ones?

[skepsel]

Massive gas giant in orbit around Red Dwarf”

That’s Dave Lister after Kryten and Cat pitched him out ‘til his Chicken Vindaloo passes..,

[wastedyears]

“Generally accepted theories of planet formation.”

Aliens laugh at us.

[wastedyears]

I know right.

[DCBryan1]

That’s Dave Lister after Kryten and Cat pitched him out ‘til his Chicken Vindaloo passes..,

[dp0622]

I’m appalled by the immaturity on these threads.

That being said, we really can’t DISPROVE that there is an alien of MAGNIFICENT proportion and size that eats BILLIONS or maybe TRILLIONS of franks and beans at at time...and the result is...

[Sirius Lee]

"Around such stars there should only be planets the size of the Earth or somewhat more massive super-Earths,"

LOL! If you say so, boss.

[Nabber]

That is somehow considered a “SCIENCE” report?

Enough “maybe’s” and “should’s” to fill URANUS....

[Army Air Corps]

I thought that this thread was going to be about Michael Moore and Robert Reich.

[skepsel]

Excellent!

[polymuser]

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!

[SunkenCiv]

And probably not just about this. :^)

[Verginius Rufus]

If this planet has 46% of Jupiter's mass, and Jupiter's mass is 318 times that of earth, this planet has 146 times the mass of the earth.

Saturn, the second-most massive planet in our solar system, has less than one third Jupiter's mass.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. Now pull my finger.

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