Re: Astronomers Discover Beginnings of 'Mini' Solar System (Spitzer)

From: robert casey (wa2ise_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:29:08 GMT

> "There may be a host of miniature solar systems out there,
> in which planets orbit brown dwarfs," said Dr. Kevin Luhman,
> lead author of the new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian
> Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. "This leads to all
> sorts of new questions, like 'Could life exist on such
> planets?' or 'What do you call a planet circling a planet-
> sized body? A moon or a planet? '"
>
If that planet-moon has its own moon, what would you call
that if the planet-moon is called a moon? :-)

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