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Planets in all the wrong places
The Christian Science Monitor ^
| 03/06/06
| Michelle Thaller
Posted on 03/06/2006 5:16:39 PM PST by KevinDavis
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To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ...
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posted on
03/06/2006 5:17:00 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
At the rate our imaging technology is advancing I'm hoping to see some good photos of the extrasolar planets before my eysight fails.
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posted on
03/06/2006 5:24:20 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
To: KevinDavis
"All of a sudden I'm seeing lots of little clues that the 1980s are making something of a nostalgic comeback."
Man, I hope not. The 80's sucked. I had two 70's and jumped right to the 90's. :-)
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posted on
03/06/2006 5:29:24 PM PST
by
gate2wire
To: KevinDavis
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Okay, so where's Uranus supposed to be? |
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posted on
03/06/2006 5:30:38 PM PST
by
Fintan
(Did you really think I could post such insightful replies if I actually read the article???)
To: cripplecreek
The NASA project to look for earthlike planets was cancelled a couple of weeks ago. That was the one that was supposed to image these objects.
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posted on
03/06/2006 5:32:15 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(pas de lieu, Rhone que nous)
To: KevinDavis
Far away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits our Milky Way... Cool! I've never heard that before. In fact I had always heard the Milky Way was isolated from other galaxies, thus lowering the risk of collision and keeping our insurance rates way down.
This information is really rather... creepy.
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posted on
03/06/2006 6:09:54 PM PST
by
impatient
(shoo, shoo, git, go on, dang galaxy)
To: Physicist; RadioAstronomer; Dawsonville_Doc
the full article isn't bad at all. shallow, but well presented.
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:28:40 PM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: Fintan
Hopefully you can find it with both hands.........
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:31:05 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Brett66
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:36:19 PM PST
by
Brett66
(Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: gate2wire
I had two 70's and jumped right to the 90's. Are you sure it wasn't just a case of double vision? The 70's were good like that...
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:59:40 PM PST
by
wyattearp
(The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:26:51 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:32:29 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
To: KevinDavis; King Prout; PatrickHenry; Physicist; RadioAstronomer; Dawsonville_Doc
A planet many times as massive as Jupiter was racing around its parent star in an incredibly close orbit, even closer than our planet Mercury's orbit of the sun. The intense energy from the star would have heated the atmosphere of the planet to well over 1,000 degrees, easily hot enough to cause gases to boil off the planet into space. What was a giant planet doing so close to a star, and how could it possibly manage to survive there? I wonder if both scenarios might be right -- what if the inner planets start out as giant balls of gas just like the outer planets, but during the early stages of the newly formed solar system the Sun causes the gas to boil off of the closer planets over a hundred million years or so, eventually leaving just the denser, rocky residue that had originally been a small percentage of the young gas giant, but now remains as what we would recognize as an Earthlike (or Marslike/Venuslike) planet?
To: Fintan
At the bottom of Urspine??
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:51:05 PM PST
by
rock58seg
(As funny as Democrats pretending to know about Natl Security and quail hunting.)
To: Fintan
At the bottom of Urspine??
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:51:29 PM PST
by
rock58seg
(As funny as Democrats pretending to know about Natl Security and quail hunting.)
To: rock58seg
I hate when that happens. sorry
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posted on
03/06/2006 10:52:13 PM PST
by
rock58seg
(As funny as Democrats pretending to know about Natl Security and quail hunting.)
To: Ichneumon
the universe is wierd. I would not be surprised if something along those lines has/had/will happen(ed) somewhere
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posted on
03/07/2006 10:36:22 AM PST
by
King Prout
(many accuse me of being overly literal... this would not be a problem if many were not under-precise)
To: Fintan
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posted on
03/07/2006 11:24:47 AM PST
by
Hatteras
Note: this topic is from 3/06/2006. Thanks KevinDavis.
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posted on
01/20/2015 11:52:17 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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