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Huh? How does that violate the definition I provided?
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Not by currently accepted definitions.
Planets must condense from the circumstellar disk of a star.
It's been determined that brown dwarves condense as stars do, and even have their own disks when young enough.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Ah, he wasn't referring to my addition.Comment
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The whole "circling the star" part. If you define a planet as "the body that contains the center of mass of the system orbiting the star.", then the body has to orbit a star to be a planet. I disagree with this. That's all.Comment
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If the thing isn't orbiting a star, it'll be really ****ing cold so it doesn't matter if it's a planet
Also, I doubt it's even possible to see such a body if it's not orbiting a star, giving that it wouldn't reflect almost any light.Comment
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We're not talking about seeing it. Say, it's 3156 and the spaceship "USS Michael Jackson" encounters using positronic infrabla bla sensors a spheric rock the size of earth, perhaps covered with ice. Do you think that this is not a planet?Comment
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No. It's a chunk of rock in the middle of nowhere.Comment
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No you don't. Secretely you agree with me.Comment
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If I see a planet I say, "hey, there's a planet". If I see a rock I say "hey, there's a rock". It's intuitive.
Besides, if you're a planet, you know you're a planet. Planets don't need human affirmation. Rocks on the other hand...Long time member @ Apolyton
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Incorrect. Black holes radiate nothing, hence the term, black hole. The accretion disks around black holes, however, radiate massive amounts of energy.Originally posted by Vince278
Including black holes but you can't see those.
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Actually, they do radiate Hawking emission, that allow the holes to slowly decay. But you are right, that we detect the black holes from the matter in their accretion disks and jets.Incorrect. Black holes radiate nothing, hence the term, black hole. The accretion disks around black holes, however, radiate massive amounts of energy.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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What's the center of mass for the system? If it is well outside the star, I can't see myself calling it a star and a planet, but two very dim stars in a binary system.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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dito. I used to use a map of Europe like that until I got bored of it. this shall last some eons, to stay with space lingo.Originally posted by alva
Thanks for my new desktop picture.
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