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Object Defies Categorization As Planet or Star

Posted by timothy on from the stella-incognito dept.

Kligat writes "The COROT project of the French Space Agency has detected an object described as defying categorization as a planet, star, or brown dwarf. Although only 0.8 times the radius of Jupiter, it is over 20 times as massive, giving it a density twice that of the metal platinum. If it is a star, it would be the smallest of those ever discovered."

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  1. Um... by IronMagnus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats no moon...

    1. Re:Um... by rk · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cue the Death Star references in 3... damn! Late to the party again!

    2. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      To replace a lot of "funny" tags on post there should be a new categorization called "obligatory."

      Because I, for one, welcome our new obligatory overlords.

    3. Re:Um... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It already exists. It is called -1 Troll.

  2. Thats no moon ... by hostyle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eh. how about calling it "large dense object in space" also known as The Shatner

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    1. Re:Thats no moon ... by TigerNut · · Score: 4, Funny

      I have mod points, but there is no category for "oddly appropriate gratuitous abuse". Whadya think?

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    2. Re:Thats no moon ... by BlueStrat · · Score: 3, Funny

      Eh. how about calling it "large dense object in space" also known as The Shatner

      Or how about just "Shat" for short?

      [Father O'Flannery voice] Aye, ye'll be burnin' in purgatory fer that one, me boy-o! [/Father O'Flannery voice]

      Sorry.

      Really.

      Strat

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  3. How massive by powerlord · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oddly enough, the interstitial ad for this is for "Mass Effect"

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  4. Chuch Norris by Swizec · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only Chuck Norris could ever be denser than platinum, so this is either him or soon getting destroyed because only Chuck Norris can defy the laws of physics.

  5. The Great Evil? by fitten · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quick... somebody run find Leeloo...

    1. Re:The Great Evil? by ChowRiit · · Score: 2, Funny

      We don't need to worry until it rings Bill Gates...

  6. Sorry... by Volatar · · Score: 1, Funny

    My bathroom broke on an interstellar sight-seeing trip and I had to go real bad...

    1. Re:Sorry... by Nos. · · Score: 3, Funny

      Nibbler?

    2. Re:Sorry... by Tr3vin · · Score: 5, Funny

      My bathroom broke on an interstellar sight-seeing trip and I had to go real bad... That had to hurt. The object is much larger than Uranus...
    3. Re:Sorry... by inode_buddha · · Score: 5, Funny

      It must have been the Captain's Log...

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  7. Brown Dwarf... by OMNIpotusCOM · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...needs classification badly

  8. Can't be a planet by AstrumPreliator · · Score: 3, Funny
    It can't be a planet, by definition:

    * is in orbit around the Sun,
    * has sufficient mass so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape, and
    * has "cleared the neighbourhood" around its orbit. Emphasis mine.
  9. Re:You think ? by amilham · · Score: 3, Funny

    pluto was not able to defy reclassification as 'not planet' after a few hundred years.
    Except that Pluto wasn't even discovered until 1930. Not really 'a few hundred years'.
  10. Indianna Jones and the Platinum Planet!!! by Zarf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Woo! That movie is gonna be awesome!

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  11. Feh... by msauve · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's just a Nibblonian latrine.

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  12. Obviously, it's... by naz404 · · Score: 3, Funny

    YO MOMMA!

    cuz yo mommma so fat, she got two smaller mommas orbiting around her!

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  13. Text Excerpt from the Interview by Fieryphoenix · · Score: 2, Funny

    Geraldo Springer: I must insist you answer me! Are you a planet, or a star?
    [sputters]

    Unclassified Object: I may be a star... perhaps.
    [lays pinky finger to corner of mouth]
    Or am I a planet?
    [simpers]
    Or maybe, just maybe
    [faces away from camera, drops pants, bends over]
    I AM A MOON!

  14. FSA? by 4D6963 · · Score: 2, Funny

    The French Space Agency? That's funny, I'm French and I didn't even know we had that. Don't they mean European rather than French?

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