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21 years 11 months ago #4765 by tvanflandern
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Iron planet: Old core?, Dead star?, New Planet Type?<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

In reference to what? -|Tom|-


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21 years 11 months ago #4431 by MarkVitrone
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I was referring to the finding reported by CNN of the discovery of an iron planet outside of the solar system with temps of more than 4100 deg F. The planet has iron fog, ext. Any ideas on the origin of such a body? MV

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21 years 11 months ago #4698 by tvanflandern
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=2 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>I was referring to the finding reported by CNN of the discovery of an iron planet outside of the solar system with temps of more than 4100 deg F. The planet has iron fog, ext. Any ideas on the origin of such a body? MV<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

It seems pretty easy to imagine in the fission model. I have a harder time getting one from the primeval nebula model.

If planets fission from the Sun, they will differentiate as they cool. Heavy elements such as iron and uranium settle to the core, and light elements rise.

As such a planet is evolving outward through tidal interactions, a giant flare from the parent star would blast or boil off the light elements, leaving behind the mainly-iron core. Presto -- iron planet. -|Tom|-


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21 years 11 months ago #4702 by MarkVitrone
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The article did not state the distance of the planet from its associated star. The high temperature of the planet seems to imply close proximity. Is it possible that the planet is a captured stellar core, or do you think it is definately a planet? MV

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