[RightWhale]

The biggest surprise would be that there aren't any more surprises out there. They are still finding moons of Jupiter at this late date. Do we really know much at all about our own neighborhood?

[MikeD]

The biggest surprise would be that there aren't any more surprises out there. They are still finding moons of Jupiter at this late date. Do we really know much at all about our own neighborhood?

Amen, brother. We don't even have UV spectra of Mercury yet, and won't until at least January. Mercury's just down the road. Heck, we haven't done much science with the far side of the Moon yet...

MD

[Darksheare]

I know.
That's why I was so amused at that one guy stating that we'd found all our closest neighbors.

And we still haven't sent anything to check out Pluto yet.
Might be some interesting surprises out on that hunk of ice.

Personally, I wouldn't be surprised to find that we live in a rather odd binary star system.
But I rather doubt the UFO types insistence that there's aliens living on a planet circling it and bebothering us every three thousand years.
'Course- the implications of what I'm saying, the binary system deal, are that the sun would have to have a neighbor that is a brown dwarf or similarly dim odject for us to have not seen it yet.
Like the article mentioned star.
Rather oddly dim for a red dwarf.