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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having
planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On 10/16/12 10:16 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri "The Alpha Centauri system — composed of three stars orbiting one another — is only 4.4 light-years away, a cosmic stone’s throw from us. Though the newly discovered planet has about the same mass as our own, its orbit is 25 times smaller, so a year on this planet passes in just 3.2 days. This means the planet is sitting up against its star, roasting at perhaps 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit with a surface likely composed of molten lava". |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On Oct 16, 8:16*pm, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. * * * * Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.comhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/earth-exoplanet-alpha-centauri Stars w/o planets may soon become the exception, because now we seem to have solar systems of multiple suns with multiple planets. In addition to a small gas giant of 3.6e25 kg as having a pair of binary suns to work with (that’s a total of 4 suns), it seems we now have a very nearby solar system to ponder. “Holy sci-fi awesome space balls. European astronomers have discovered an alien planet in Alpha Centauri, the star system that's pretty much our neighbor.” http://gizmodo.com/5952378/an-earth+...-closest-to-us “The European team detected the planet by picking up the tiny wobbles in the motion of the star Alpha Centauri B created by the gravitational pull of the orbiting planet. The effect is minute—it causes the star to move back and forth by no more than 51 centimetres per second (1.8 km/hour), about the speed of a baby crawling. This is the highest precision ever achieved using this method.” Sirius also has a few odd little wobbles that do not synchronize to just their local binary situation. So perhaps there’s some hope that at least a capture will be noticed by way of similar methods of detection via star wobble. Perhaps there’s a sol wobble factor and conceivably even a Jupiter caused wobble that could now be detected. Imagine if an Earth sized planet can manage to wobble a star of 1.8e30 kg, enough to be detected 4.3 light years away from our instruments, as to consider how many millions of planets could soon be discovered in this way. Our moon wobbles and even modulates Earth in a very big way, and supposedly that influence in turn wobbles our sun differently than a planet w/o moon. Just for asking; How much does the gravitational pulls of Venus or even little Mercury wobble our sun? http://groups.google.com/groups/search http://translate.google.com/# Brad Guth,Brad_Guth,Brad.Guth,BradGuth,BG,Guth Usenet/”Guth Venus” |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On Oct 16, 9:11*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 10/16/12 10:16 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. * * *Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri "The Alpha Centauri system composed of three stars orbiting one another is only 4.4 light-years away, a cosmic stone s throw from us. Though the newly discovered planet has about the same mass as our own, its orbit is 25 times smaller, so a year on this planet passes in just 3.2 days. This means the planet is sitting up against its star, roasting at perhaps 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit with a surface likely composed of molten lava". In other words, you and other parrots of the mainstream status-quo have nothing to constructively add to this topic. |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
Dear Brad Guth:
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:10:07 AM UTC-7, Brad Guth wrote: .... Stars w/o planets may soon become the exception, because now we seem to have solar systems of multiple suns with multiple planets. I agree with you here. Now if Barnard's star was ejected from a system, will it have a planet? I suspect *all* stars have planets, and to be without is exceptional. The planets we can detect further away, have to have their ecliptic aligned pretty close to Earth for us to see them occulting their parent. Just for asking; How much does the gravitational pulls of Venus or even little Mercury wobble our sun? Swamped by Jupiter. http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravit...arycenter.html David A. Smith |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
"dlzc" wrote in message ...
Dear Brad Guth: On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:10:07 AM UTC-7, Brad Guth wrote: .... Stars w/o planets may soon become the exception, because now we seem to have solar systems of multiple suns with multiple planets. I agree with you here. Now if Barnard's star was ejected from a system, will it have a planet? I suspect *all* stars have planets, ================================================== ========= Given the number Sol has, that’s the first sensible thing I’ve ever heard from you, Smiffy. -- This message is brought to you from the keyboard of Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On 10/16/12 10:16 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri ScienceShot: Earth's Ugly Twin http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...in.html?ref=em |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On Oct 17, 7:42*am, dlzc wrote:
Dear Brad Guth: On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 6:10:07 AM UTC-7, Brad Guth wrote: ... Stars w/o planets may soon become the exception, because now we seem to have solar systems of multiple suns with multiple planets. I agree with you here. *Now if Barnard's star was ejected from a system, will it have a planet? I suspect *all* stars have planets, and to be without is exceptional. *The planets we can detect further away, have to have their ecliptic aligned pretty close to Earth for us to see them occulting their parent. Micro-wobbles can be detected at most angles to us, so the new and improved Wobble methods for detecting planets should greatly help. Just for asking; How much does the gravitational pulls of Venus or even little Mercury wobble our sun? Swamped by Jupiter. http://www.orbitsimulator.com/gravit...arycenter.html David A. Smith That's a very nifty gravity simulator program that amplifies "The Solar System Barycenter" so that we get to see in detail what various planets can do to their sun. |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On Oct 17, 3:27*pm, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 10/16/12 10:16 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. * * *Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri ScienceShot: Earth's Ugly Twin http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...ot-earths-ugly... WOW goes around fast Mercury goes around in 58 days. How big is the star its obiting? TreBert |
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Planet found in Alpha Centauri!!!
On 10/17/12 5:14 PM, G=EMC^2 wrote:
On Oct 17, 3:27 pm, Sam Wormley wrote: On 10/16/12 10:16 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote: Finally, the closest star system to our own shows signs of having planets! I would've thought if we were to discover planets in any star system, it would've been discovered here first! After about 1000 other planets discovered, the first one in the Alpha Centauri system have been found. This one orbits around Alpha Centauri B. Still awaiting planets around AC A, and Proxima Centauri. Yousuf Khan Earth-Sized Planet Discovered Orbiting Around Nearest Star | Wired Science | Wired.com http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...alpha-centauri ScienceShot: Earth's Ugly Twin http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceno...ot-earths-ugly... WOW goes around fast Mercury goes around in 58 days. How big is the star its obiting? TreBert http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/rigil-kent.html |
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