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reds4ever is offline reds4ever
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Astronomers photograph exo-planet! Remove this text

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4501323.stm

Wow! Very big planet and very little, dim star. Still impressive though!
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wicked! Though the star is rather puny, it seems.
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I guess I'm going to have to click to find out.

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How is the planet visible? I presume it must be an emitter of radiation, because I don't see a brown dwarf at twice the distance of Neptune giving it much of a reflecton.
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If it's an emitter of radiation, it's not really a planet.
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The 'colour' of the brown dwarf might be a clue
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explainify.
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If it's an emitter of radiation, it's not really a planet.


Quaoar now! In recent years 'planet' has come to mean many things.
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Quaoar now! In recent years 'planet' has come to mean many things.


this takes me to a different thread. ... explainify, you as well.
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I just wanted to open the can of worms. What is a planet?

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my definition
A rock larger than some arbitrary size X with a nearly perfect spherical shape that emits no visible light.
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Something bigger than Pluto and circling a star ?
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So Ned is a planet?

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Then he must certainly be a gas planet.
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A rock larger than some arbitrary size X with a nearly perfect spherical shape that emits no visible light.


Half of the planets in our solar system would not fall under that definition.
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The Earth must turn off its lights at night, else its not a planet!

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In any event, I would like to put as big of a visible light telescope as we can on orbit to look for exoplanets. It will cost a billion or so, but this stuff is the ****.
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Half of the planets in our solar system would not fall under that definition.


Half? I am not sure of that.

What planets in our system emit light?
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I think he's going off the "rock" part of your definition, but pretty much all gas planets have a solid core.
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The Earth must turn off its lights at night, else its not a planet!


Thanks for my new desktop picture.

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Yes. Beautiful picture. Where'd you get it?
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Jupiter emitts lots of EM band stuff, and infrared.

What part of the spectrum is that photograph in? I doubt it's a visible light spectrum photo.
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Technically, all bodies of all types that have a therodynamic temperature above absolute zero radiate.

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quote:
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explainify.



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quote:
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Half of the planets in our solar system would not fall under that definition.


How so?
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quote:
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The Earth must turn off its lights at night, else its not a planet!


How about "that emits no light from fusion reactions"? Or simply "whose mass is not sufficient to cause natural fusion reactions".
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Technically, all bodies of all types that have a therodynamic temperature above absolute zero radiate.


VISIBLE LIGHT
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Is there any hope of finding a human habitable planet and sending people to it?
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Sending people there is the tricky part. It's a rather energy-intensive endeavor...
 
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