Free-roaming planets discovered

[Mikes]

Is it just me or doe ss free roaming planet seem like the perfect place for ore-stripping aliens to live?

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I for one welcome our new gypsy overlords.

[eric_marsh]

The article said that they detected 10 Jupiter sized objects within 10 AU. Saturn is 9 AU from the sun so with a little rounding they found 10 Jupiter sized objects within the equivalent of the orbit of Saturn? Interesting. Perhaps a start that didn't form right?

[Mr. Tweedy]

That must be a typo. You can't have objects that close to the sun with "no parent star."

[eric_marsh]

Mutual gravitational attraction?

[Algernon Sydney is Dead]

...they found 10 Jupiter sized objects within the equivalent of the orbit of Saturn? Interesting. Perhaps a start that didn't form right?

More like the remains of a star a few thousand years after it was split by a destructo ray.

[Mikes]

...they found 10 Jupiter sized objects within the equivalent of the orbit of Saturn? Interesting. Perhaps a start that didn't form right?

More like the remains of a star a few thousand years after it was split by a destructo ray.

"...That's no free-roaming planet!"