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I remember this Mainframe cartoon!
Follow internet tradition and call it Planet McPlanety-Face ?
Welcome to 2016. Mike brown and Konstantin Batygin basically proved that the only way we could explain the orbits of Pluto and other KBO was a massive 9th, yet to be discovered rogue planet more than likely ejected from our inner solar system during planet formation.
Just call it an URO and be done with it.
wtf,they have several classifications.
- free-floating planetary-mass object
- exoplanet
- rogue planet
- brown dwarf
welcome to science where theres names, AND acknowledgement that things change with new data
SIMP? More like PGTOW (Planets Going Their Own Way)
This planet is no orbiter.
I hate that I laughed at that
Name seems wrong but you do you, SIMP 0136
Strangely Independent Massive Planet - Simp
So how come there's an aurora when there's no star to spray it with electromagnetic radiation?
Because the planet produces its own radiation. That much mass means this is less a "planet" and more of a proto star. It's actually large enough to fuse deuterium if the right conditions arise. Pour enough hydrogen in there to raise the mass three of four times what it has now and it'd be comparable to our sun.
So it's like smoke or burning embers before a flame ignites?
Would this be a star which wasn't big enough and fizzled out into a big planet?
Every planet is a star which wasn't big enough. Some are just more challenged than others.
Cool, thanks for that!
Strangely attracted to distant stars yet unable to establish a stable orbit, Simp 0136 is condemned to a lonely existence.
So, my understanding is that the Simp is all alone?
Being that size can be really fucking intimidating to others.
That's looks like a picture of Jupiter, or an artists impression of it, and there's a star needed for an aurora to happen.
Any scientific sources to back this story up?
No it is indeed an artists impression of the planet - it's on the wiki page.
I'm assuming that aurora only needs solar wind to happen on earth - or that solar wind outside the heliosphere is strong enough you don't need a star for it to happen.
In 2018 astronomers said "Detecting SIMP J01365663+0933473 with the VLA through its auroral radio emission, also means that we may have a new way of detecting exoplanets, including the elusive rogue ones not orbiting a parent star ...
Interesting, I just finished reading Rendezvous With Rama.
If a massive object like that was to pass through our neighbourhood I think it could fling planets out of the solar system.
You may enjoy Fritz Leiber's short story, "A Pail of Air", which involves the Earth being ejected.
Even with this mass this planet would have to pass one of the outer planets extremely close and quite slowly to have a chance of dragging a planet out of the solar system.
This is the same sort of idea as when galaxies merge. There is little chance of our solar system being effected in that scenario. There is just too much space to space.
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I love that whole series, amazing books!!
But yes, this simp is basically a failed star that was prob flung out of some nursery.
That's one of my very favorite books. It's fantastic at setting the mood. The further books are ok but not as much to my taste.
I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain...
The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE...
There's also an audio play which was neat.
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wait is this real or a joke? do we have a new planet that I've never heard of??
We have discovered over 6000 exoplanets in total, and over 100 in this year. I'd be surprised if you knew of all of them
Oh you wanna be an astronaut, kid? Name every exoplanet
Galaxy, not Solar System. There are a lot of planets in our galaxy that you’ve probably never heard of
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Borg Sphere Model 2025
simp 0136 really needs love. seriously!
He's just jealous 'cause the dorks on Earth called him a failed star.
Lonely queen.
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