11-02-2016, 12:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-02-2016, 08:04 AM by stevebowers.)
(10-27-2016, 02:58 AM)stevebowers Wrote: I didn't realise quite how big the rings were around J1407b. Not sure they'd have all those stripes - unless the ring system is slowly accreting into several large moons.
Wiki says there's at least one sizable moon, accounting for a large gap 61 million kilometers from the planet / brown dwarf. Several other noted gaps are attributed to smaller moons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1SWASP_J14...3-394542.6
The system is very young, so there's a suspicion that this is a protoplanetary disk rather than a long-lived ring system.
Does this system exist in OA yet? I might make it a noted home for the Jotunn.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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"Everbody's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain, but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, oh, suddenly you've gone too far." -- Professor Farnsworth, Futurama