The number of failed stars

[masbtt]

I think that in the same way that the stars are formed, a lot of failed stars (smaller size) or let say, Jupiter size planets should have been formed in the interestellar space. This number could be a multiple of the number of stars as they need less matter.<br />If there are 400 billions stars in our galaxy, the number of Jupiter size interestellar planets (whith moons) could be thousands of billions.<br />Is this theory very weird?<br />I ask this because I think that the number of earth size interestellar planets coul be a multiple of the number of Jupiter size interestellar planets.

 

[3488]

As there tend to be more smaller objects than larger ones, than rogue plants / failed stars<br />should be in their billions.<br /><br />Not to mention rogue dwarf planets, asteroids & comets.<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>

 

[qso1]

IIRC, in the estimate of stars in the galaxy (400 billion), the most common type of star was taken into account which are red dwarfs. Failed stars would be more difficult to account for and any number would be pretty much a wild estimate. Even the 400B number probably has a plus/minus 25 or even 50 billion error range.<br /><br />masbtt:<br />the number of Jupiter size interestellar planets (whith moons) could be thousands of billions. <br />Is this theory very weird?<br /><br />Me:<br />I don't see it as a very weird theory. For one thing, Jupiter sized planets have already proven to be quite common. We don't have the ability yet AFAIK to detect moons around these Jupiter sized worlds but one day we probably will. I suspect we will find moons around these worlds.<br /><br />Like you, I suspect earth sized worlds will probably outnumber jupiter sized worlds although in our system, terrestrial vs gas giant is roughly equal unless you factor in satellites, KBOs etc. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong>My borrowed quote for the time being:</strong></p><p><em>There are three kinds of people in life. Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen...and those who do not know what happened.</em></p> </div>