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Youngest Planet Discovered

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the just-a-two-thousand-year-old-baby dept.

qazsedcft writes "BBC is reporting that Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the youngest planet, being less than 2000 years old. If this proves to be true it could challenge our models of solar system formation."

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  1. Change our thinking? by Mr.Fork · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the article submitter/BBC has it wrong about changes to theories. Science is about discovery. How about this discovery introduces new wonders of our universe? Imagine - being able to even detect a plant and then determine that is even 2000 years old - that is the real story!

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  2. Headline Correction by joeflies · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Youngest KNOWN Planet Discovered

  3. Re:Magratheans by JeepFanatic · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm still trying to figure out how this got modded insightful.

  4. Re:is this really the youngest plannet. by MBGMorden · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have to take into account how many light years away it is, for all I know it could be older than the earth it just looks younger. I'm going to assume (maybe erroneously) that only the second half of your post was a joke.

    As to the quote portion above, if Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and they see this as 2000 years old, then it's going to have to be 4.5+ billion light years away to actually BE older than Earth. That's significantly outside of the galaxy so no way we'd pick it up.
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  5. Re:I'm not that impressed by Grishnakh · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Slashdotters will quit with the 6000-year-old earth comments just as soon as the hordes of Bible thumpers stop trying to convince everyone that that is really true.

    Since the Bible thumpers are actually growing in number, don't expect that to happen any time soon.