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Interesting read.
Rogue Planet 'Nomads' May Outnumber Stars In Milky Way (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/25/rogue-planet-nomads-may-outnumber-stars_n_1301721.html)
Uncle Peter
02-26-2012, 03:49 PM
Interesting stuff. Maybe I could actually find a date on one of these rogue planets.
One of 'em surely slammed into earth and the resulting ejecta and material displacement over time created da moon.
Uncle Peter
02-26-2012, 04:16 PM
Your location says "Someplace between Nowhere and Goodbye," RD.
Maybe you are on one of those rogue planets right now — on ..... "The Twilight Zone."
Do Dooo Doooo Doo...Do Dooo Doooo Doo.
haha, ya never know UP, I very well could be.Your location says "Someplace between Nowhere and Goodbye," RD.
Maybe you are on one of those rogue planets right now — on ..... "The Twilight Zone."
Do Dooo Doooo Doo...Do Dooo Doooo Doo.
Scott C4/5
02-28-2012, 10:47 PM
That's what I need, a nomadic planet. Spend eternity roaming the galaxy. Give me an oxygen supply and a space heater and I'm set. "King of the world!"
feisty
02-29-2012, 07:30 PM
One of 'em surely slammed into earth and the resulting ejecta and material displacement over time created da moon.
guess that answers the question of what happens if you get caught between the moon and NYC.
Scott C4/5
02-29-2012, 08:39 PM
guess that answers the question of what happens if you get caught between the moon and NYC.
I wonder if the people on the space station sing that from time to time... depending on their orbit. I'm sure they sing rocket man and space oddity. :)
feisty
03-01-2012, 08:20 PM
I wonder if the people on the space station sing that from time to time... depending on their orbit. I'm sure they sing rocket man and space oddity. :)
I asked Neil DeGrasse Tyson on his Reddit ama thread but have yet to recieve an answer :/
Donno
03-04-2012, 05:47 PM
One of 'em surely slammed into earth and the resulting ejecta and material displacement over time created da moon.
Actually the Moon was formed during what is called the early heavy bombardment period of the creation of the solar system. There was a lot of big pieces of junk hanging around and bumping into each other and the planets. The current theory is that something about the size of Mars hit the Earth. Here's a link to an article in Physics Today that discusses the formation of the Moon: http://www.geo.umass.edu/courses/geo892/FormationDifferentntEarth-Wood2011.pdf
Actually my good man Donno, you reiterated what I stated, but just used more words! ;)Actually the Moon was formed during what is called the early heavy bombardment period of the creation of the solar system. There was a lot of big pieces of junk hanging around and bumping into each other and the planets. The current theory is that something about the size of Mars hit the Earth. Here's a link to an article in Physics Today that discusses the formation of the Moon: http://www.geo.umass.edu/courses/geo892/FormationDifferentntEarth-Wood2011.pdf
Scott C4/5
03-05-2012, 06:33 PM
One of 'em surely slammed into earth and the resulting ejecta and material displacement over time created da moon.
They had a show on the Science Channel showing how it most likely formed with a collision of a rogue planet into the Earth. Made a lot of sense when this one scientist showed that since the moon slowly slips away from the Earth each year, she ran a computer program to reverse its path and demonstrated how long ago it would have hit and how large the impacting planet would have been.
Very entertaining and educational.