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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > RSF: The Great Space Space > PYF Exoplanets
 
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Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

 Exoplanets are cool. Their names are often less cool, either alphanumeric gibberish or lame names decided by committee.

Anyway, my favourite is probably WASP-189b, a so-called Hot Jupiter (gas giant that orbits very close to its parent star). It's so hot in fact that it's possible it actually rains molten iron in its atmosphere.

Another very cool bunch are the seven (!) terrestrial planets from the TRAPPIST-1 system, all which sit very close to one another. The system itself is named after beer brewed by Belgian monks.

So tell me yours, spacefiends

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_28185_b

Pretty neat chonk gas giant in it's star habitable zone.

quote:

HD 28185 b takes 1.04 years to orbit its parent star. Unlike most known long-period planets, the orbit of HD 28185 b has a low eccentricity, comparable to that of Mars in the Solar System.[5] The orbit lies entirely within its star's habitable zone.[3]

The amplitude of the radial velocity oscillations means that the planet has a mass at least 5.7 times that of Jupiter in the Solar System. However, the radial velocity method only yields a minimum value on the planet's mass, depending on the orbital inclination to our line-of-sight. Therefore, the true mass of the planet may be much greater than this lower limit.

Given the planet's high mass, it is most likely to be a gas giant with no solid surface. Since the planet has only been detected indirectly through observations of the star, properties such as its radius, composition, and temperature are unknown.

Since HD 28185 b orbits in its star's habitable zone, some have speculated on the possibility of life on worlds in the HD 28185 system.[6] While it is unknown whether gas giants can support life, simulations of tidal interactions suggest that HD 28185 b could harbor Earth-mass satellites in orbit around it for many billions of years.[7] Such moons, if they exist, may be able to provide a habitable environment, though it is unclear whether such satellites would form in the first place.[8] Additionally, a small planet in one of the gas giant's Trojan points could survive in a habitable orbit for long periods.[9] The high mass of HD 28185 b, of over six Jupiter masses, actually makes either of these scenarios more likely than if the planet was about Jupiter's mass or less.
Probably worth checking out with a mega telescope someday.

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

 Also we started naming them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proper_names_of_exoplanets

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Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
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My favourite sci fi imagery is populated planets orbiting big gas giants. Have we found any habitable zone gas giants? Is that even possible?

also my favourite exoplanet is ur mum

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Splicer posted:

My favourite sci fi imagery is populated planets orbiting big gas giants. Have we found any habitable zone gas giants? Is that even possible?

also my favourite exoplanet is ur mum

Yes just like the one I just posted and several others although it's an open question how likely an earth mass moon is to form.

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

 Did they ever disprove gliese 581 d?

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Pope Hilarius II
Nov 10, 2008

Lawman 0 posted:

Also we started naming them!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proper_names_of_exoplanets

I know but a lot of them are super lame, like Dimidium or Phobetor, they sound like made-up by a 14 year old whose mythological knowledge all comes from comics he half remembers. Or like, Victoriapeak, that's just dumb.

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

Pope Hilarius II posted:

I know but a lot of them are super lame, like Dimidium or Phobetor, they sound like made-up by a 14 year old whose mythological knowledge all comes from comics he half remembers. Or like, Victoriapeak, that's just dumb.

I mean you eventually someone is gonna name one "dickbutt".

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Astryl
Feb 1, 2005

"15,000 hours of Diablo II isn't that much, dweeb."

 Pluto.

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

 Unlike Proxima B this one actually orbits around a quiet and chillaxed red dwarf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teegarden%27s_Star_b

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcI1gWwqTfk
Pretty interesting imo and seems pretty likely we will stumble across one with oxygen in the atmosphere and declaring that it has life without checking for persistent methane or other biosignatures first.

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Lawman 0
Aug 17, 2010

 http://www.space-art.co.uk/gallery.php?gallery=exoplanets
https://extrasolar.spaceart.org/extrasolar-planets.html
I wondering what ever happened to this ladies space art, glad it's still around. :)

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