Boffins Spot Loneliest Planet (There must be a song there?)

[Guest Kheldar]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/10/boffins_spot_loneliest_planet/

 

It's just a drifter in a big, cold universe, but it's causing excitement among the astronomers that spotted it: 80 light years away, there's a young planet six times the size of Jupiter, that isn't orbiting any star.

[xanthic]

There is -

 

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzoazPPC7b8&feature=player_detailpage#t=356 

 

Edited October 10, 2013 by xanthic

[Sheila]

yes thats the song that came to mind with me.  Thought from the headline it must be a monster planet

[Perkil8r]

80 LY away, that's virtually local! There are so many questions this raises don't you think?

 

Where did it come from, which way is it headed, will it eventually wander into an orbit with a local star....... this is actually quite exciting, does this mean there are others? I guess it indicates so since the odds of it happening have just reduced exponentially.

[T A WOW]

I didn't read that right, I thought it said Eric Cartman (of southpark fame)

[Big Al]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_N3OwrW_Q&app=desktop

Edited October 11, 2013 by Big Al

[Big Al]

>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ&app=desktop

[xanthic]

80 LY away, that's virtually local! There are so many questions this raises don't you think?

 

Where did it come from, which way is it headed, will it eventually wander into an orbit with a local star....... this is actually quite exciting, does this mean there are others? I guess it indicates so since the odds of it happening have just reduced exponentially.

 

Makes you think that those old crackpot theories about Nemesis planets passing by aren't so crazy after all...