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Digital mix guy User ID: 2697853 United States 11/14/2012 10:04 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | related!! NEW YORK – Are these planets without orbits? Astronomers have found 10 potential planets as massive as Jupiter wandering through a slice of the Milky Way galaxy, following either very wide orbits or no orbit at all. And scientists think they are more common than the stars. Quoting: PlanetDoom 1298910 [link to news.yahoo.com] Thread: ROGUE PLANETS wandering the cosmos -- "Death Star" needed to destroy colossal NEOs Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 11/14/2012 10:04 AM Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
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THE INQUISADOR User ID: 27677169 United States 11/14/2012 10:19 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 100.000 light years..Just a bit far away :nose23l36: SCOTLAND FOREVER America is the Grand Experiment..Let us not Fail.. Listed Number 1 in the Guinness World Record Book of EXTRA LARGE Steel Balls Opinions are like Farts..Only the very best linger on and on Great Men wake up to slay spam tards. Most are content to chase lizards. Therein lies the difference. Live Brave.LIVE FREE. Murphy is my patron Saint. I SIGN MY NEG KARMA |
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lasombra User ID: 2920692 United States 11/14/2012 10:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was a huge flap in the 1930's about a small rogue planet being on a collision course with Earth. I can't seem to find a thing about it now. Same one? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2920692 Does anyone remember reading something about it? Could it be you're thinking of two big best sellers of the early 1930s: When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide by Wylie and Ballmer. The first book was made into a movie by George Pal in the early fifties. No, this wasn't from a novel. I'll check around again for some credible source. Ran across reference to it in an old news story sometime in the late 90's. Can't seem to find a lot of information that was readily available back then though... A real head scratcher sometimes. . "You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." Navajo Proverb |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27730548 Germany 11/14/2012 10:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.bbc.co.uk] Quoting: Ulysses31 Astronomers have spotted a "rogue planet" - wandering the cosmos without a star to orbit - 100 light-years away. Hopi Blue Star or Blue Kachina Prophecy [link to www.crystalinks.com] |
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Artaius User ID: 27731041 Germany 11/14/2012 10:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | yea, they can detect some lonesome cowboy planet 100 light years away, but not the one knocking at our front doors, right. Last Edited by A r c on 11/14/2012 10:26 AM There will come a time when you believe everything ends. This will be the beginning [Louis L'Amour] ~ A r c t u r u s |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27711403 United States 11/14/2012 12:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.bbc.co.uk] Quoting: Ulysses31 Astronomers have spotted a "rogue planet" - wandering the cosmos without a star to orbit - 100 light-years away. IT IS COMING TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. |
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Digital mix guy User ID: 2697853 United States 11/14/2012 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LA Times. Giant rogue planet, without a home star, may roam nearby heavens. The super-Jupiter, called CFBDSIR2149, has a mass four to seven times that of our own gas giant, and is probably a scorching 800 or so degrees Fahrenheit. It appears to sit in a moving group of stars that, at a rough distance of 65 light-years, is just a cosmic stone’s throw away from us. Scientists first discovered the apparent planet using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, while conducting a survey of brown dwarfs, "failed" stars that aren’t massive enough to start the nuclear fusion in their cores that would allow them to shine. The study authors are only 87% sure it’s traveling together with the AB Doradus Moving Group and isn't simply crossing paths. They'll need to keep watching CFBDSIR2149 before they can say for sure that it's a planet. There’s also a possibility the object is a brown dwarf, which would still be interesting, but for very different reasons, Veillet said. [link to www.latimes.com] Last Edited by Digital mix guy Spock on 11/14/2012 12:49 PM Have no fear, Spock is here!!! LLAP |
Waterbug User ID: 1295673 United States 11/14/2012 12:54 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | LA Times. Giant rogue planet, without a home star, may roam nearby heavens. Quoting: Digital mix guy There’s also a possibility the object is a brown dwarf, which would still be interesting, but for very different reasons, Veillet said. [link to www.latimes.com] The plot thickens... |
Redstorm2000 User ID: 2135289 United States 11/14/2012 12:59 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | There was a huge flap in the 1930's about a small rogue planet being on a collision course with Earth. I can't seem to find a thing about it now. Same one? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2920692 Does anyone remember reading something about it? Could it be you're thinking of two big best sellers of the early 1930s: When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide by Wylie and Ballmer. The first book was made into a movie by George Pal in the early fifties. No, this wasn't from a novel. I'll check around again for some credible source. Ran across reference to it in an old news story sometime in the late 90's. Can't seem to find a lot of information that was readily available back then though... A real head scratcher sometimes. . Got it: it was the asteroid Hermes in 1937. This is an extract from a NASA site:: "On Oct. 28, 1937, astronomer Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg noticed an odd streak of light in a picture he had just taken of the night sky. About as bright as a 9th magnitude star, it was an asteroid, close to Earth and moving fast--so fast that he named it Hermes, the herald of Olympian gods. On Oct. 30, 1937, Hermes glided past Earth only twice as far away as the Moon, racing across the sky at a rate of 5 degrees per hour. Nowadays only meteors and Earth-orbiting satellites move faster. Plenty of asteroids were known in 1937, but most were plodding members of the asteroid belt far beyond Mars. Hermes was different. It visited the inner solar system. It crossed Earth's orbit. It proved that asteroids could come perilously close to our planet. And when they came, they came fast. Reinmuth observed Hermes for five days. Then, to make a long story short, he lost it." |