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Interesting Planet Apparently Heating Its Star
T. Panimaesh writes "A Canadian graduate student has discovered a planet which is heating the star it rotates around. 'Evgenya Shkolnik detected a spot on HD179949 that was 700 degrees warmer than the surrounding areas and circled the star at the same pace as the planet's orbit, once every three days. First seen in 2001, it also appeared in two sets of observations in 2002. It is probably not an intrinsic feature of the star, which takes nine days to rotate. Instead, the planet appears to possess a magnetic field that interacts with the star's magnetic field.' The 'roaster' planet being studied is almost as big as Jupiter, a gas giant planet in our solar system, and has 270 times the mass of Earth. It moves at 150 Kilometres per second, completing it's orbit in just 3.5 days."
A hacker from Canada has been wardriving in said area and reported that the star's hotspot is IEEE 802.11 compliant.
I wonder what use it would be with a 176yr ping time! DOH!
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I wonder what use it would be with a 176yr ping time! DOH!
Obviously, you aren't an Earthlink user.
Obviously it's completely populated by women and with no one to stop them they keep cranking the thermostat up...
I stand both corrected and deeply appalled. But anyone could have missed Canada, all tucked away down there.
Why is anything anything?
Jupiter is also a city just north of West Palm Beach in Florida. It's quite conceivable that someone, somewhere, would have thought "You mean the city? Well of course this planet's going to be larger, I mean, Jupiter's just the usual collection of stripmalls and closed condo communities you get all over Florida, it isn't that big. It's quite hot though, perhaps that's the reason they're mentioning it."
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.