05-12-2017, 09:35 AM
Thanks Tom.
I appreciate the info and link. Given how recently we first discovered an exo-planet, it's incredible how many we know about now and how different they are from one another. Since they're at many variable stages in their formation, I suppose that shouldn't be too surprising.
With the large debris area and a potential planet with a mass 10 times earth's, it's fascinating to imagine the amount of asteroid, comet, and small particle impact that may be occurring in that orbital field. Quite a show if there is a planet, and that planet has an atmosphere. A meteor storm every night, and day:
the system's debris disk, which could hold many clues to the nature of planetary formation beyond our solar system.
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due to common favourable forming conditions for rocky planets close in and planetesimals at large radii.
If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life. - biochemist Erwin Chargaff
I appreciate the info and link. Given how recently we first discovered an exo-planet, it's incredible how many we know about now and how different they are from one another. Since they're at many variable stages in their formation, I suppose that shouldn't be too surprising.
With the large debris area and a potential planet with a mass 10 times earth's, it's fascinating to imagine the amount of asteroid, comet, and small particle impact that may be occurring in that orbital field. Quite a show if there is a planet, and that planet has an atmosphere. A meteor storm every night, and day:
the system's debris disk, which could hold many clues to the nature of planetary formation beyond our solar system.
...
due to common favourable forming conditions for rocky planets close in and planetesimals at large radii.
If I know what I shall find, I do not want to find it. Uncertainty is the salt of life. - biochemist Erwin Chargaff
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