Posted on 04/03/2010 9:16:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
“Mmmm. Planets.”
Now that is funny!
Earth, Mars and Venus being moons of Saturn...
Very interesting. I hadn’t heard that.
The best information at present is that there is no way a planet would ever arise from a dusty cloud; and that all agglomerations of matter whether stars, planets, galaxies, or strings of galaxies, arise from the z-pinch effect associated with currents moving through plasma.
Rogue Planet Find Makes Astronomers Ponder TheoryEighteen rogue planets that seem to have broken all the rules about being born from a central, controlling sun may force a rethink about how planets form, astronomers said on Thursday... "The formation of young, free-floating, planetary-mass objects like these is difficult to explain by our current models of how planets form," Zapatero-Osorio said... They are not linked to one another in an orbit, but do move together as a cluster, she said... Many stars in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have formed in a similar manner to the Orion stars, she said. So there could be similar, hard-to-see planets floating around free near the Solar System.
by Maggie Fox
October 5, 2000
Note: this topic is from 4/03/2010.
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