[meteorite-list] Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars

From: dorifry <dorifry_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 14:38:39 -0400
Message-ID: <31FA2007FCD94D068C143FE770D762B6_at_DoriPC>

Living cells free-floating in outer space? Pretty extraordinary claim with
zero evidence to back it up. Sounds goofy to me.

Phil Whitmer
Joshua Tree Earth & Space Museum


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From: "Paul H." <oxytropidoceras at cox.net>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2012 9:56 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars


> Free-Floating Planets in the Milky Way Outnumber Stars
> by Factors of Thousands: Life-Bearing Planets May Exist
> in Vast Numbers ScienceDaily (May 10, 2012)
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510100217.htm
>
> Could billions upon billions of free-floating 'nomadic'
> planets in the Milky Way be seeding our galaxy with
> life. Mail online, May 11, 2012,
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2142948/Could-billions-billions-free-floating-nomadic-planets-Milky-Way-seeding-galaxy-life.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
>
> Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets (Apr. 17, 2012)
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120417113652.htm and
> http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2012/pr201212.html
>
> Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars
> by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today,
> http://www.universetoday.com/94656/rogue-planets-can-find-homes-around-other-stars/
>
> The paper is:
>
> Wickramasingh, N. C., and others, 2012, Life-bearing
> primordial planets in the solar vicinity. Astrophysics and
> Space Science; DOI 10.1007/s10509-012-1092-8
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Paul H.
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