Friday, May 27, 2011

'Homeless' planets

Along with the discovery of Gliese 581, an evidently inhabitable planet discovered roughly 20 light years away, an international team of scientists have also discovered what they call "free floating" or "homeless" planets a few weeks ago. These homeless planets were seen because of gravitational micro-lensing which is when an object, such as a planet, with an extreme amount of mass bends light from stars in the background illuminating said planet. Scientists also believe that homeless planets may be quite common. Are they setting up a scapegoat for when Nibiru starts to be visible in the sky?

'Free floating' planets found with no star in sight -BBC
More on Gliese 581 via BBC

19 comments:

  1. Wow that is a really interesting concept to thinki about. I would love to visit one, crazy to see what it would be like.

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  2. Hah... Looking such planetary stuff scares me a lot! What if we get hit by such thing!?

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  3. You know there's a song about Gliese 581C?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PilONE2FjA

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  4. Haha that's an interesting linkage with Nibiru but I think we would've seen it by now if it was coming here next year, even by amateurs. Very interesting article though.

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  5. Some pretty mind blowing stuff =)

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  6. what is nibiru, another planet on its way? soon enough there will be conspiracy theories that it was there the whole time yada yada yada haha

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  7. How can a planet be inhabitable and homeless at the same time? Doesn't it have to get reliable heat and light from a start it orbits?

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  8. Such a cool concept, i can't believe they cancelled SETI.

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  9. Morans aren't real you moron.
    I love all this planetary stuff, it's always been real interesting hearing about new potential home planets.

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  10. If the planet is homeless can I give it some money and make them fight each other?

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  11. I'm scared for the day Nbiru rocks up

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  12. This is the SAME thing I was thinking. There have been a ton of these "homeless" planets being reported by NASA and such lately.

    I'm not a believer in conspiracy. But I am very fascinated by it.

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  13. could be interesting nice blog

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  14. Yeah, I read something about this a few days ago too. It's really interesting. All those poor planets without stars. Must be cold...

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  15. Interesting stuff, I hope they wouldnt cover something like that up with this idea!

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  16. Poor guys :D
    Happy to live on this beautiful blue and warm planet!

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  17. Where's its pet dog and strange smell?

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