Small planets forming in the Pleiades: astronomers


	Small planets forming in the Pleiades: astronomers

oldbogus

11-14-2007 7:54 PM

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pleides, planets

oldbogus says:

We already know there are planets there. That's where the aliens come from!

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                        WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 
Small, rocky planets that could
resemble the Earth or Mars may be forming around a star in the
Pleiades star cluster, astronomers reported on Wednesday.                        
                        </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071114/sc_nm/space_planets_dc_1"><P>One of the stars in the cluster, also known as the Seven
Sisters, is surrounded by an extraordinary number of hot dust
particles that could be the "building blocks of planets" said
Inseok Song, a staff scientist at <SPAN id="lw_1195079599_0" class="yshortcuts">NASA</SPAN>'s Spitzer Science Center
at the <SPAN id="lw_1195079599_1" class="yshortcuts">California Institute of Technology</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071114/sc_nm/space_planets_dc_1"><P>"This is the first clear evidence for planet formation in
the Pleiades, and the results we are presenting may well be the
first observational evidence that terrestrial planets like
those in our solar system are quite common," said Joseph Rhee
of the University of California Los Angeles, who led the study.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071114/sc_nm/space_planets_dc_1"><P>Located about 400 light years away in the constellation of
Taurus, the Pleiades is one of the best known star clusters and
among the closest to Earth. A light-year is the distance light
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