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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. You think ? by unity100 · · Score: 0, Troll

    who can stand against the power of astronomers ?

    pluto was not able to defy reclassification as 'not planet' after a few hundred years.

    a commission of astronomers may rule it back to being a planet 5-10 years later.

    you know what ? f@ck astronomers. ill teach my kids that pluto is a planet.

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