New race of planets discovered today in the 13th constellation

Nonphixion · 08-04-2006, 05:57 AM

400 light-years away, in section 16-22 of Ophiucus -- Constellation 13. I think it's a very interesting story -- given that this constellation was stricken from the 12 signs accepted signs of the astrological zodiac due to an "occult misunderstanding" of the number 13. Specifically it's association with consciousness.

Our planet within that last few years, through deviation on it's axis is now entering a point where we pass through 13 constellations instead of just the conventional and accepted 12. Ironic that this is the place where these revolutionary super-gravitational planetary bodies are discovered.

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BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Strange 'twin' new worlds found

A pair of strange new worlds that blur the boundaries between planets and stars have been discovered beyond our Solar System.
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Opiuchus Constellation;
Ophiuchus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ophiucus Zodiac;
Ophiuchus zodiac

avsp · 08-04-2006, 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by previously cited bbc article

The pair belongs to what some astronomers believe is a new class of planet-like objects floating through space; so-called planetary mass objects, or "planemos", which are not bound to stars.

they're spaceships?

Thorgrim · 08-04-2006, 08:53 AM

holy fuck, im sitting here thinking "you mean jupiter..." i didn't know there was a third option between a smal star and jupiter

ballz2wallz · 08-04-2006, 09:35 AM

race?

Ardentfrost · 08-04-2006, 09:36 AM

Yeah, like how earth is a white planet, and other planets are black planets... these are like Asian planets.

ballz2wallz · 08-04-2006, 09:37 AM

Originally Posted by Ardentfrost

Yeah, like how earth is a white planet, and other planets are black planets... these are like Asian planets.

Publius · 08-04-2006, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by Ardentfrost

Yeah, like how earth is a white planet, and other planets are black planets... these are like Asian planets.

so they fly around the galaxy at 20 million mph below the planetary speed limit?

Ardentfrost · 08-04-2006, 10:12 AM

Originally Posted by Publius

so they fly around the galaxy at 20 million mph below the planetary speed limit?

With their blinkers on

Nonphixion · 08-04-2006, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Ardentfrost

With their blinkers on

What I really found remarkable -- they are orbiting each other at a distance 6 times the distance that Pluto (which is really fucking far) is from our sun. That's 18 BILLION MILES! The distance from the earth to the sun is a only miniscule 93 million miles.

That's a factor of nearly 195 times farther than we are away from our star. As a note; our Pluto mission New Horizons takes 7 years just to get from here to the outer solar system.