Yet another new solar system?

Astronuc

Possible Miniature Solar System Discovered

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system. Peering through ground- and space-based telescopes, scientists observed a brown dwarf — or failed star — less than one hundredth the mass of the sun surrounded by what appears to be a disk of dust and gas.

The brown dwarf — located 500 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon — appears to be undergoing a planet-forming process that could one day yield a solar system, said Kevin Luhman of Pennsylvania State University, who led the discovery.

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franznietzsche

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Possible Miniature Solar System Discovered
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051130/...Z1BHNlYwMxNzAw

Its going to be a very cold system with a "star" that fails to attain fusion (and thus, isn't really a star). In fact, thats only about ten times the mass of Jupiter.

mars2

yes,compared with our solar system .

Danger

I think that I just figured out where Pengwino is from...

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