Posted on 10/10/2013 12:49:33 AM PDT by zeestephen
This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only six times that of Jupiter. The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago -- a newborn in planet lifetimes.
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It looks like this:
system, or a death star!!,....””
Just what I thought!!!
:)
The planet formed a mere 12 million years ago
How do they know?
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a guess (ignore the baloney jargon)
As far as I know, Mars is the only rouge planet.
A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without A Star
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Finally a place where Hollywood ‘stars’ are REALLY needed.
It's like the museum guard who, when asked how old the dinosaur bones were, responded "4 million and 3 years old."
When pressed on the precision of his answer, he said that when he was hired 3 years ago, they told him the bones were 4 million years old.
“But seriously, at 80 light years its in another stars neighborhood, not ours. It is no where near us.”
Was thinking about your comment, and the distance a light year is in miles. It’s essentially 5.88 trillion miles. So, if you could spend dollars at the speed of light, it would take a whole year to reach the amount that our present administration has added to the national debt.
Damn, beat me to it again.
They were looking for brown dwarfs.
Why is the object not a small brown dwarf. That is, a star morphology not previously recognized?
My guess is that, like Jupiter, it would have been destined to be a star but had insufficient mass to self ignite.
Brown dwarf.
BTW......
I read a Siemens ad today that said manufacturing is comong back to America, different more productive manufacturing. Four examples were given, all in the south
Well, all I can say is that the early bird gets the worm.
But you may find some solace in the fact that it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Siemens supplied the third Reich radio equipment during WWII. They used a lot of slave labor. Times have changed.
???? A rouge planet has no solar system. Last I heard, mars was still between Earth and the asteroid belt
These discoveries make stories like “When Worlds Collide” seem more reasonable.
But these planets could be explained by stellar formation phenomena - lots of gas giants form that never became stars in the stellar nurseries. So there could be trillions of them in the universe.
You must be thinking of a ROGUE planet. A ROUGE planet is just red.
They found its birth certificate in Honolulu.
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