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For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System |
Silicon Jock
User ID: 945307 United States 04/17/2010 03:35 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System A Hidden Cosmic Neighbor: Cool Brown Dwarf Found Lurking Near Our Solar System Astronomers have discovered the closest new star to us that’s been spotted in 63 years. Though “star” might be a stretch, depending upon whom you ask. The new find, UGPS 0722-05, is less than 10 light years from here. But sky-watchers missed it for so long because it’s a brown dwarf, a member of the murky class of celestial objects that linger between gas giant planets and low-mass stars. Brown dwarfs have so little mass that they never get hot enough to sustain the nuclear fusion reactions that power stars like the sun. Still, they do shine, because they glow from the heat of their formation, then cool and fade [New Scientist]. This dwarf’s temperature is somewhere between 266 and 446 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the coldest scientists have even seen. With its minimal activity, the brown dwarf gives off just 0.000026 percent the amount of light that our sun does. Like dwarf planets, which cast aside the 9-planet solar system of our childhoods and riled Pluto-philes everywhere, brown dwarfs don’t lend themselves to simple scientific definitions. The International Astronomical Union sets the planet–brown dwarf boundary at 13 times the mass of Jupiter. But that mass limit is an imperfect definition—what of brown dwarf–size bodies that orbit stars, behaving themselves like supersized planets [Scientific American]? The nomenclature could get even messier when the details of this new find are confirmed. Study leader Philip Lucas and his colleagues suggest that the newly discovered brown dwarf is so cool that it might be the first member of a new class of ultralow temperature dwarfs. Although one fingerprint of such a new class, absorption of infrared light by ammonia, appears to be missing, only “time will tell” if the discovery merits a new classification, the researchers note [Science News]. Lucas’ team’s paper is currently being submitted to the journal Nature, where the peer-review process should help to verify how close the team was with its parallax measurement of the brown dwarf’s distance. If they’re correct, UGPS 0722-05 will not only beat out the previous record-holders for proximity to Earth—a binary set of brown dwarfs in the Epsilon Indi system, about 11.8 light-years away—it would also suggest that perhaps more of these shadowy celestial objects linger even closer to us. [ link to blogs.discovermagazine.com] |
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Silicon Jock (OP)
User ID: 945307 United States 04/17/2010 03:42 AM
Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Now I am not suggesting that this is Nibiru lol, as 10 light years is a ways away. However, if this monster is so close and it has escaped us until now, wonder if there are others even closer that have also gone "unseen". :) |
Anonymous Coward 04/17/2010 03:53 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System The new telescope W.I.S.E was launched in Dec. of 2009 to find these bad boys. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 281126 Netherlands 04/17/2010 03:54 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System OLD FUCKIN NEWS! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 911332 United Kingdom 04/17/2010 04:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Why don't they just call it a Black Midget.
This political correctness drives me nuts. |
Ragman
User ID: 590942 United States 04/17/2010 04:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Doom is in the Air.... |
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yikes! User ID: 941971 United States 04/17/2010 04:06 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System A Hidden Cosmic Neighbor: Cool Brown Dwarf Found Lurking Near Our Solar System...
Quoting: Silicon JockNot sure what's so "cool" about anything "lurking" near our solar system. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 913153 United States 04/17/2010 04:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System rut roh! |
Sumo
User ID: 938315 United States 04/17/2010 04:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Why don't they just call it a Black Midget.
This political correctness drives me nuts.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 911332 The Joke's Over. Hunter S. Thompson |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 760475 Canada 04/17/2010 04:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Why don't they just call it a Black Midget. This political correctness drives me nuts. Quoting: Sumo |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 856028 Hong Kong 04/17/2010 05:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System
Why don't they just call it a Black Midget.
This political correctness drives me nuts.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 911332Is that you, Randy Newman? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 941339 United States 04/17/2010 05:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System just go ahead and admit...
...we are a binary system! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 945247 United States 04/17/2010 05:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Why don't they just call it a Black Midget.
This political correctness drives me nuts.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 911332wat chou talkin abut willis? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 548111 United Kingdom 04/17/2010 05:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Why don't they just call it a Black Midget.
This political correctness drives me nuts.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 911332It's diametrically challenged. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 945374 United States 04/17/2010 05:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Nibiru Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System. [ link to video.godlikeproductions.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 945375 India 04/17/2010 05:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System fool this is nemesis and not nibiru.nibiru crashed and formed the asteroid belt |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 945375 India 04/17/2010 05:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System correction this is also not nemesis.nemesis orbit is 1-1.5 light years. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 896722 United States 04/17/2010 05:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System DUDE, there are several threads on this already, NOT fucking Nibiru!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 528739 United States 04/17/2010 05:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Now I am not suggesting that this is Nibiru lol, as 10 light years is a ways away. However, if this monster is so close and it has escaped us until now, wonder if there are others even closer that have also gone "unseen". :)
Quoting: Silicon Jock From the OP: Lucas’ team’s paper is currently being submitted to the journal Nature, where the peer-review process should help to verify how close the team was with its parallax measurement of the brown dwarf’s distance. If they’re correct, UGPS 0722-05 will not only beat out the previous record-holders for proximity to Earth—a binary set of brown dwarfs in the Epsilon Indi system, about 11.8 light-years away— it would also suggest that perhaps more of these shadowy celestial objects linger even closer to us.[link to blogs.discovermagazine.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 925775 United States 04/17/2010 06:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System How on earth does a thread like this get pinned???
This star is 10 light years away!!!!!!! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 783004 Malaysia 04/17/2010 06:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System This is a SHILL.
Just to pacify us that Nibiru is so far away
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 865201 Australia 04/17/2010 06:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System There is no Nibiru ffs its made up to sell crap there could be billions of brown dwarfs but none close enough to us to matter. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 825034 United States 04/17/2010 06:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System Something is getting closer.
EQ's, Volcanos, comets... it's all the signs that something is tugging at earth's crust. (planet x) |
Norseman
User ID: 827483 United States 04/17/2010 06:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System 1963... I don't think so. We have embraced the very boundaries of our universe. A brown dwarf must not be mistaken for a great find when we can find them on WWF. |
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Serpo
User ID: 945398 Australia 04/17/2010 06:49 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System [ link to www.solarviews.com] Was called xena,now called ERIS, also known as Nibiru 10th planet Last Edited by Serpo on 04/17/2010 06:50 AM |
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Norseman
User ID: 827483 United States 04/17/2010 06:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System So not a star but a planet, correct? |
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pro lurker
User ID: 811113 Canada 04/17/2010 08:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System why is this pinned? “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 945402 United Kingdom 04/17/2010 09:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: For all you Nibiru fans..... Brown Dwarf Found Near Our Solar System How the hell can any object 10 fucking light years away be termed the 10th planet? 10 light years is not just a few time around the block and back! |
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