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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.

  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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  3. 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...
  4. Re:It's a Dwarf! by Goobermunch · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it is, we're going to have to reevaluate the age of the universe.

    Theoretically speaking, it should take longer than the current estimated age of the universe for a star to go through the evolution to red giant to white dwarf to black dwarf.

    If it is a black dwarf, that'd be flipping cool.

    --AC

  5. Re:Sorry... by inode_buddha · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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