Planemos
I've never heard of planemos before.
Can't sift. Site is frozen.
I will post the story from BBC news, even though I am not particularly happy with the way BBC News is reporting the Crisis in the Middle East. They're reporting it Anti-Israel.
No matter what the politics of this situation are, Israel is this tiny little space that has been fighting for its very existence since before it was even a state.
Fancy that would ya.
Benjamin Netanyahu (sp?) , former Israeli Prime Minister was live on Cable news this morning. I had to turn on the TV because at 5:30 AM I awoke with that horrible feeling of something terribly wrong. Mr. Netanyahu said that the West has historically been complacent to threats of any type of ethnic cleansing. He gave the example of Hitler, when nobody would believe that it was true. Of course, times have changed a lot in the area of technology, and now we can turn on the ol' TV and see the war. When asked what he thought of Bush and Condereecee's proposals to end the conflict, Netanyahu said I think that the president must be on dr.......
then the network said they lost satellite. Ha. I'll see if it is shown again later. I think it was Fox News Network. They're doing the best job of impartial reporting. Mr. Netanyahu was in London and he said that what was happening in Israel and Lebanon stastically was no different than the London Blitz. I think Pres. Clinton should have been there also. Where is he? Silent and exiled .
Back to Planemos.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5241774.stm
Strange 'twin' new worlds found
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.
A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent years but this is the first set of "twins".
Dubbed "planemos", they circle each other rather than orbiting a star.
Their existence challenges current theories about the formation of planets and stars, astronomers report in the journal Science.
"This is a truly remarkable pair of twins - each having only about 1% the mass of our Sun," said Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto, co-author of the Science paper.
"Its mere existence is a surprise, and its origin and fate a bit of a mystery."
'Double planet'
The pair belongs to what some astronomers believe is a new class of planet-like objects floating through space; so-called planetary mass objects, or "planemos", which are not bound to stars.
Now we're curious to find out whether such pairs are common or rare. The answer could shed light on how free-floating planetary-mass objects form says Valentin Ivanov.
They appear to have been forged from a contracting gas cloud, in a similar way to stars, but are much too cool to be true stars.
And while they have similar masses to many of the giant planets discovered beyond our Solar System (the larger weighs in at 14 times the mass of Jupiter and the other is about seven times more massive), they are not thought to be true planets either.
"We are resisting the temptation to call it a 'double planet' because this pair probably didn't form the way that planets in our Solar System did," said co-researcher Valentin Ivanov of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Santiago, Chile.
'Amazing diversity'
The two objects have similar spectra and colours, suggesting that they formed at the same time about a million years ago.
They are separated by about six times the distance between the Sun and Pluto, and can be found in the Ophiuchus star-forming region some 400 light years away. They go under the official name Oph 162225-240515, or Oph 1622 for short.
"Recent discoveries have revealed an amazing diversity of worlds out there," said Dr Jayawardhana. "Still, the Oph 1622 pair stands out as one of the most intriguing, if not peculiar."
His colleague, Dr Ivanov, said they were curious to find out whether such pairs are common or rare.
"The answer could shed light on how free-floating planetary-mass objects form," he added.
Oph 1622 was discovered using the ESO's New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile. Follow-up studies were conducted with the ESO's Very Large Telescope.
http://www.eso.org/
Planemos, heh.
Planemos and stardust.
If a leader doesn't emerge from the current Middle East crisis, the whole planet, ours, Earth, might very well be totally screwed.
Totally.
One of those ' friends' of mine told me that nobody reads blogs anymore because nobody is interested in people's personal thoughts.
Wrong attitude because
Everything Exists.
Light a Candle for Peace Every Day.
Think Peace.
Can't sift. Site is frozen.
I will post the story from BBC news, even though I am not particularly happy with the way BBC News is reporting the Crisis in the Middle East. They're reporting it Anti-Israel.
No matter what the politics of this situation are, Israel is this tiny little space that has been fighting for its very existence since before it was even a state.
Fancy that would ya.
Benjamin Netanyahu (sp?) , former Israeli Prime Minister was live on Cable news this morning. I had to turn on the TV because at 5:30 AM I awoke with that horrible feeling of something terribly wrong. Mr. Netanyahu said that the West has historically been complacent to threats of any type of ethnic cleansing. He gave the example of Hitler, when nobody would believe that it was true. Of course, times have changed a lot in the area of technology, and now we can turn on the ol' TV and see the war. When asked what he thought of Bush and Condereecee's proposals to end the conflict, Netanyahu said I think that the president must be on dr.......
then the network said they lost satellite. Ha. I'll see if it is shown again later. I think it was Fox News Network. They're doing the best job of impartial reporting. Mr. Netanyahu was in London and he said that what was happening in Israel and Lebanon stastically was no different than the London Blitz. I think Pres. Clinton should have been there also. Where is he? Silent and exiled .
Back to Planemos.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5241774.stm
Strange 'twin' new worlds found
A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.
A few dozen such objects have been identified in recent years but this is the first set of "twins".
Dubbed "planemos", they circle each other rather than orbiting a star.
Their existence challenges current theories about the formation of planets and stars, astronomers report in the journal Science.
"This is a truly remarkable pair of twins - each having only about 1% the mass of our Sun," said Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto, co-author of the Science paper.
"Its mere existence is a surprise, and its origin and fate a bit of a mystery."
'Double planet'
The pair belongs to what some astronomers believe is a new class of planet-like objects floating through space; so-called planetary mass objects, or "planemos", which are not bound to stars.
Now we're curious to find out whether such pairs are common or rare. The answer could shed light on how free-floating planetary-mass objects form says Valentin Ivanov.
They appear to have been forged from a contracting gas cloud, in a similar way to stars, but are much too cool to be true stars.
And while they have similar masses to many of the giant planets discovered beyond our Solar System (the larger weighs in at 14 times the mass of Jupiter and the other is about seven times more massive), they are not thought to be true planets either.
"We are resisting the temptation to call it a 'double planet' because this pair probably didn't form the way that planets in our Solar System did," said co-researcher Valentin Ivanov of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Santiago, Chile.
'Amazing diversity'
The two objects have similar spectra and colours, suggesting that they formed at the same time about a million years ago.
They are separated by about six times the distance between the Sun and Pluto, and can be found in the Ophiuchus star-forming region some 400 light years away. They go under the official name Oph 162225-240515, or Oph 1622 for short.
"Recent discoveries have revealed an amazing diversity of worlds out there," said Dr Jayawardhana. "Still, the Oph 1622 pair stands out as one of the most intriguing, if not peculiar."
His colleague, Dr Ivanov, said they were curious to find out whether such pairs are common or rare.
"The answer could shed light on how free-floating planetary-mass objects form," he added.
Oph 1622 was discovered using the ESO's New Technology Telescope at La Silla, Chile. Follow-up studies were conducted with the ESO's Very Large Telescope.
http://www.eso.org/
Planemos, heh.
Planemos and stardust.
If a leader doesn't emerge from the current Middle East crisis, the whole planet, ours, Earth, might very well be totally screwed.
Totally.
One of those ' friends' of mine told me that nobody reads blogs anymore because nobody is interested in people's personal thoughts.
Wrong attitude because
Everything Exists.
Light a Candle for Peace Every Day.
Think Peace.
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