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Planet Discovered with a Massive Core
helioquake writes "A collaboration of astronomers discovers possible a 'Rossetta Stone' of planetary formation study, reported by San Francisco State Univerity and Subaru Observatory. This new planet, orbiting around G-star like our Sun (HD 149026), weighs roughly equal to that of Saturn, while its size is significantly smaller in diameter. Planetary modeling suggests that the core of the planet alone must have 70 times more mass than Earth, indicating the possible existence of a metallic solid core inside the planet. Just like the rocky planet discovered earlier, the finding of this dense-core planet may lead to better understading of the formation of rockey planets in the Universe."
I'd say it's time for IPX to head out and start mining that core. There's probably quite a bit of rare minerals in it.
That's what all the Planets say!
Call me when they discover a giant planet, with a metallic core outside the planet. That's the armored base from which they keep sending us aliens like Ann Coulter and Tom Cruise. Then we just drop magnet-tipped nukes into space, and finally it's safe to watch TV again.
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Heavy Metal planets are so Hard Core.
I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
Managerium
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...Scientists at Tom's Astrophysics Guide and Ars Astra estimate that this new massive core planet is still capable of outperforming the latest Intel dual core planets by up to 20% in the all-important Halo 2 benchmark.
Come on, did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night?
AMD vows to release planet with dual massive cores by end of '05. Intel responds by renegotiating contracts with its distributors.
I have a massive core but no one ever writes about me.
Who cares if it's far away. I want to know how they measure the Earth's mass. I always figure they just turned a bathroom scale upside down.
Stop Global Warming!
Just say no to irreversible processes!
Don't they test these planets before they deliver?!?
Oh well, let's gdb that core and do a stack trace...
...if they have crappy movies about their core too. Poor bastards.
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