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Alexander BesantNovember 15, 2012 17:13
Homeless planet discovered is seven times the size of Jupiter (VIDEO)
The discovery of the homeless planet with the unflattering name CFBDSIR2149, suggests that starless planets and even worlds may be more common than once believed.
The discovery of the homeless planet with the unflattering name CFBDSIR2149, suggests that starless planets and even worlds may be more common than once believed.
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Astronomers in Canada and France found a homeless planet that does not orbit a star. It's name? CFBDSIR2149. (ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/Nick Risinger /Courtesy)
Astronomers have discovered a "rogue" planet 100 light years from Earth.
The discovery of the homeless planet with the unflattering name CFBDSIR2149, suggests that starless planets and even worlds may be more common than once believed, said Space.com.
"Although theorists had established the existence of this type of very cold and young planet, one had never been observed until today," said Étienne Artigau, an astrophysicist at Universite de Montreal, reported the Telegraph.
The homeless planet is not small and weak however.
Rather it is believed to be seven times larger than Jupiter cruising through space without a care or pull from gravitational forces.
"This object was discovered during a scan that covered the equivalent of 1000 times the surface of the full moon,"
Time said that the planet is relatively close to Earth and may have accidentally been released from its solar system.
"If this little object is a planet that has been ejected from its native system, it conjures up the striking image of orphaned worlds, drifting in the emptiness of space," study author Philippe Delorme, of the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble in France, reported Space.com.
The finding was reported in the journal journalAstronomy and Astrophysics.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/science/121115/homeless-planet-discovered-seven-times-the-size-jupiter-video
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So this great revelation failed to tell us how fast the massive rogue planet is traveling, which would be fascinating to know.
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Why do they always assume the rogues were orphaned from a star system? They could form in deep space. Would it hurt their feelings to discover that "dark matter" is as absurd as it sounds and there really are all kinds of objects in space we don't know about?
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This is amazing!
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what determines the speed of it's revolution?
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