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#3563699 - 04/27/12 06:54 PM
Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/27/sun-like-star-may-have-more-planets-than-our-solar-system/A star already known to host five alien planets may actually be home to a whopping nine full-fledged worlds - a planetary arrangement that, if confirmed, would outnumber our own solar system and set a new record for the most populated system of extrasolar planets yet found. Dear Fox News, F*** you! Signed: Pluto.
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#3563708 - 04/27/12 07:29 PM
Re: Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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Sorry Pluto you're just not hardcore enough!
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#3563713 - 04/27/12 07:59 PM
Re: Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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This is seriously cool news, but I'm really curious to know when we will find a planet 1-2 times the mass of earth within the habitable zone around a yellow star like ours. It's just a matter of time. These red dwarfs seem fishy to me. Maybe it's Krypton? LOL. We will find another earth this century. I just hope I'm not dead when we do. Will be very exciting times.
Jason
Edited by 777 Studios - Jason (04/28/12 07:46 PM)
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#3563726 - 04/27/12 08:35 PM
Re: Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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SUN: (calling on the phone). PLUTO: (answering the phone) Hello? SUN: Hi man, how are you doing? Hey man, it's been a while since we last talked, and I was wondering if you are doing OK and coping well with all this... PLUTO: Who's this??!! SUN: Pluto... don't you recognize me anymore? It's me...the Sun!... PLUTO: SUN?!!! SUUUNN?!!?!?!.... I HAVE NO SUN!!!!! (Hangs up). SUN: Snifff.... 
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#3563733 - 04/27/12 09:09 PM
Re: Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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Jason, just an addendum - it's not only yellow stars, as orange dwarfs could be as interesting as yellow ones.
Red dwarfs not so much, as a planet in the habitable zone probably would be tidal-locked and not rotate, furthermore red dwarfs are prone to flares.
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#3563940 - 04/28/12 10:17 AM
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#3564058 - 04/28/12 01:35 PM
Re: Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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This is seriously cool news, but I'm really curious to know when we will find a planet 1-2 times the mass of earth within the habitable zone around a yellow star like ours. It's just a matter of time. These red dwarfs seem fisht to me. Maybe it's Krypton? LOL. We will find another earth this century. I just hope I'm not dead when we do. Will be very exciting times.
Jason Earth also has a large moon pulling on it, contributing to its stable, pleasant spin. You can have an Earth like planet with other right ingredients, but if it's spinning randomly on its axis, or two fast, or too slow, it's going to be harsh world, one that doesn't have seasons or day and night cycles as we know it.
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#3564173 - 04/28/12 07:29 PM
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We will find another earth this century. I just hope I'm not dead when we do. Will be very exciting times.
Jason And if we find another "Earth" this century it will probably take us another 500 years to get there at the current rate we're going!
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#3564175 - 04/28/12 07:39 PM
Re: Solar system with 9 planets detected.
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This is seriously cool news, but I'm really curious to know when we will find a planet 1-2 times the mass of earth within the habitable zone around a yellow star like ours. It's just a matter of time. These red dwarfs seem fisht to me. Maybe it's Krypton? LOL. We will find another earth this century. I just hope I'm not dead when we do. Will be very exciting times.
Jason Earth also has a large moon pulling on it, contributing to its stable, pleasant spin. You can have an Earth like planet with other right ingredients, but if it's spinning randomly on its axis, or two fast, or too slow, it's going to be harsh world, one that doesn't have seasons or day and night cycles as we know it. You can also have an earth-like planet with a thousand other variables different from out own that would support life just fine. Some of the factors you mention are non-factors frankly.
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#3564178 - 04/28/12 07:44 PM
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I tell my friends and family that extraterrestial life will not be found by SETI or by flying saucer landing on the White House, but by telescope. They look puzzled when I tell them that. A lot of the public is clueless as to how close we actually are.
I agree that these Red Dwarfs are rife with planets, but they just seem a little too exotic. Yes an orange or yellow start would be much better. There are an infinite amount of factors that determine a habitable planet, but all it takes is one green, blue world out there to change everything. Then you'll see the race to get there Panzer. Let's hope there is one within 100 light years or so that could motivate the human race enough to try and at least send a probe there. Ion engines anyone?
The current issue of Astronomy magazine talks about detecting rogue planets?!!? There are planets everywhere, just like in the movies, we just need to build the optics to see them better. The magazine also talks about a planet covered by a deep ocean, but it is too close to the host star for life as we know it, but it does have a butt load of water. All we need is one with water in the right spot to cause a research frenzy. Pray our government isn't bankrupt or the free enterprise system is still intact when it happens so something can be done about it.
Jason
Edited by 777 Studios - Jason (04/28/12 07:46 PM)
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