Eris / Pluto embryonic ice worlds around stars.

[3488]

Interesting article here.<br /><br />Possible Kuiper Belts found around Beta Pictoris, AU Microscopii & Fomalhaut.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

Interesting, but so far I consider the evidence rather thin (that's a pun within the story)<br /><br />Still, the more disks we see, the more we learn.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[3488]

Hi MeteorWayne.<br /><br />Yes its true that the evidence is on the thin side, but the observations to date, do seem to fit.<br /><br />The more we see of these critters, the more we will learn.<br /><br />Andrew Brown. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080">"I suddenly noticed an anomaly to the left of Io, just off the rim of that world. It was extremely large with respect to the overall size of Io and crescent shaped. It seemed unbelievable that something that big had not been visible before".</font> <em><strong><font color="#000000">Linda Morabito </font></strong><font color="#800000">on discovering that the Jupiter moon Io was volcanically active. Friday 9th March 1979.</font></em></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://www.launchphotography.com/</font><br /><br /><font size="1" color="#000080">http://anthmartian.googlepages.com/thisislandearth</font></p><p><font size="1" color="#000080">http://web.me.com/meridianijournal</font></p> </div>

 

[h2ouniverse]

Hi Andrew,<br /><br />Good news indeed.<br /><br />An ice belt is a nice belt...<br />for of course this means other prospects for water. I still do think that there should be a twilight zone in planetary formation betweeen any Kuiper belt and the area where full-fledged planets can coalesce. And an intermediate between Uranus'core and Pluto, say three-Earth-massed total, half-Earth-massed for its solid core, might have over its solid core a water or water-ammonia ocean at its surface under a thick atmosphere: this makes then conditions for life independent from the star's light flux, hence robust conditions for life. Not like the fragile ones of the ever-changing habitable zone. (Earth was out in the beginning, came in, and will come out within 1 bn years).<br /><br />Watery regards. <br /><br />Nota: sorry for this absence, I just went out from my black hole...

 

[alokmohan]

Analogy of extrasolar planet was for so many years.But it materialised only in 1993.And unless we make observation,we canot say that it exists.We may like analogies but not always it it may turn out to be true.For dicussing extrasolar planets ,it is too early to think.We dont know our own oort belt well.And kuiper belt.We know our own kuiper belt only recently.