Re: Astronomers have found a giant planet orbiting so close to its parent star...

Yep...the poster is a stoned out idiot...


<mtomsschit@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think they're starting to confuse small stars with planets. These are
stars, albeit small ones, that they're seeing.

I don't think so. This _planet_ has a mass about ten times that of
Jupiter; a star needs at least 75 times the mass of Jupiter, or it will
be too small to sustain fusion (and will be a gas giant _planet_ by
definition).
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


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