General / Off-Topic Rogue planet detection

Rollo

R
Read the article earlier today. Interesting but I'm a bit split on this. I've learnt never to trust an astronomer. What they say one day can be totally altered the next day and they usually never remember what they stated as a fact and unchangeable at first.
However it is indeed interesting and as they say would be an easier target to observe directly without a parent star and its glaring disturbance. What to say it isn't another Brown dwarf though? Like WISE 1049-5319, that I recently discovered is our third closest system nowadays.

I wouldn't want these single(?) orbs everywhere in the ED though. I need some order and planets should belong to a system with at least one star! :)
 

Kerrash

Kerrash
Yeah you have a point, it will probably end up just being an artefact of gravitational lending or something :p

Still if they are peppered around the right quantity, rogue planets could provide an interesting game play mechanic.
 

MacArthur

M
There was a nice exoplanet discussion on "in our time" on BBC radio 4 the other day. What caught my ears with regard to ED was talk of small planets of enormous density. Tough to land on, even harder to take off once you've scraped some of the solid gold topsoil into your cargo hold:D
 

Sir.Tj

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Sir.Tj
Interesting read.

It could be Raxxia or Magrathea?
 
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