"Ron Baalke" wrote...
in message ...

HUBBLE HELPS CONFIRM OLDEST KNOWN PLANET

The part i still don't get is the early "life" of this planet. Scientists
believe that before it came to be in the position it is today, before
it entered M4, its sun was a "Sunlike star." Now, our star is a
3rd generation star, correct?

Along with the info in another post where i wondered about the
ages of the farthest objects *before* the light we see from them
today left those faraway sources, this would seem to be another
bit of evidence that tells us that the Universe we see is yet much
older than the 13-14 billion years now believed?

If the Oldest Known Planet described in Ron's article at one time
orbited a "Sun-like star," and if it's really 13 billion years old, AND
scientists are correct in assuming that early on there were terrestrial
planets accompanying--planets that would have been destroyed by
the pairing with the protopulsar neutron star--then a much more
metal-rich environment existed far too soon after the Big Bang to
be plausible, isn't this so?

happy days and...
starry starry nights!

--
The Flow! The Flow!
The Flow ain't goin' slow,
The Flow is goin' faster than
I really want to go.

The Flow! the Flow!
I must go with The Flow,
The Flow is where I want to be--
NOT on the sandy sho'.

NObody wants to feel...

ALL WASHED UP

Paine Ellsworth