Strange Mini Solar System Found

starexplorer writes "In 1990, Penn State's Alex Wolszczan found the first exoplanets. But he never got much credit from mainstream researchers, because his planets (3 of them, roughly Earth-sized) orbit pulsars and hold no chance for harboring life. Now he's found a 4th object on the outskirts of the system, SPACE.com is reporting. Call it a planet, call it an asteroid, Wolszczan says, but call the setup a dark, eerie twin of the inner half of our solar system. Also in the same story, news of a brown dwarf just 15 times the mass of Jupiter that has a planet-making disk of stuff around it. Together, more problems for astronomers, who still don't have a basic definition for the word planet or a firm idea of what separates planets from stars."

Comments

Mini-Martians?

[RicJohnson]

Mini Solar System? My God! Does this mean mini-me is really an ALIEN?
I thought he looked a little different. I did not even know he had a green card.

Re:Credit

[porcupine8]

Flamebait? Aw, I thought it was kinda funny in a lame sort of way. But I have no mod points.

Re:TMBG

[spuzzzzzzz]

You are making very little sense. Let's go back to the beginning:

You said "I admit I can't find any "it's" in the post above", referring to this post. In my reply, I pointed out three (incorrect) occurences of the word "it's". I pointed them out because you said "I can't find any". Because you could not find any occurences of the word "it's", I quoted them for you. The quotes were intended to help you find the occurences of the contraction "it's" since you were unable to find them previously. Does it make sense yet?

I have returned to the original post and I still see three incorrect occurences of the word "it's" (and one correct one), so I am having great difficulty understanding what you are going on about.