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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Are a new type of planets and dark alone?


U.S. astronomers discovered what they explain as a new class of planets: 10 dark bodies floating lonely far from any host star. The discovery was detected in the center of the Milky Way. The scientists, who published the findings in the journal Nature, believe these planets, which are the size of Jupiter, were expelled from their original planetary systems.

According to Professor David Bennett, professor of astrophysics and cosmology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana,

Mars is still an "embryo" of planet


The planet Mars twisted in record time and reached its current size in just three million years, much faster than scientists thought. That rate of formation of the Red Planet could explain that its mass is one tenth of that of the Earth. The study supports a theory more than two decades, according to which the planet remained small because it avoided collisions with what would become the "planetary construction materials", ie other objects in space. The finding is published in the journal Nature.

In the early days of the solar system before the planets were formed, a cloud of gas and dust surrounding the Sun Scientists believe that the planets arose from the accumulation of this material driven by electrostatic energy.

The mysterious birthday Neptune


Neptune is approximately 4400 million kilometers away from Earth. Neptune is about to celebrate its first birthday. On July 12 will be a year-Neptunian-terrestrial or 164.79 years since its discovery on September 24, 1846. But why do we know so little about the distant planet?

At approximately 4400 million kilometers from Earth lies Neptune, the first planet in the solar system to be discovered deliberately. After classification of the planet Uranus in 1780, astronomers have been puzzled by his strange orbit. Scientists concluded that either Isaac Newton's laws had a fundamental flaw or something else-another-planet Uranus was pulling its expected orbit. And so began the search for the eighth planet.