STAR TREK:BORG
oops, sorry headgehog, i thought i’d read all of your post before i posted but i hadn’t. lol [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] that’s what happens when i get up to go get coffee while trying to wake up *and* read on the computer at the same time, hehe… (its 6am est here lol) i got side tracked off into crusaders post. (this place needs MORE smilies! lol)
well, considering W359 is only about 1/10th the size of Sol making it about the size of Juipter, planets the size of earth would be *very* likely to effect it because it’s own gravity isn’t as dominate as our sun’s is.
and Earth *does* effect Sol, we are part of the pull on the sun that causes it’s own orbit to wobble… they estimated without earth, the sun would move away from mercury about a third of the current distance between them now and it’s orbit would become less egg shaped and more circular over a few millenia. if there *is* a body around w359, it’s probably very tiny and so far away that the surrounding stars effect it more than w359 does… it just doesn’t have the gravitational pull to be holding much of anything so far away we couldn’t see it.
*only* being able to detect gas giants is a bit outdated, we’ve found planets much further away than w359, as we search closer to earth the size we can detect gradually decreases.
despite all of that, i still think it *could* have very small bodies such as asteroids, but i’m saying if they were close, there’s NO WAY they’d put a space station on them due to the danger of w359’s solar flare activity! it just wouldn’t be worth the risk. it may not be as strong as Sol, but because w359’s gravity isn’t as powerful, when it *does* flare it ejects more power out in each flare than Sol does… do you understand what i’m saying? lol i’ve only disagreed with the theory that there is anything planet sized close to w359… if you took mars, and put it in w359’s system at the same distance it is from Sol, we’d be able to detect that there was a planet there. you have [b]got[/b] to take into account the size and mass of w359 and not use calculations for much larger stars with possible planets.
if earth was around A centauri, you are right it’d be unlikely we’d see it anytime this year. but we weren’t talking about large stars… we’re talking about a very dim, weak red dwarf that is affected by *comets* that pass too close to it.
shut me up!!! (is that possible? you’ll just have to forgive me, i’m a member of a ‘telescope club’ via UofL and it’s one of the only things i leave the house to do, hehe)
that’s what i get for talking about space when i only long, deep down inside to drool over kai. [img]images/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif[/img]
i’d actually like to see your model flamegrape, do you have any artwork of it rendered? and do you want my poser xev model or not? lol [img]images/smiles/icon_wink.gif[/img] i made the hair myself — it’s transmapped. i’ll upload pictures of it if you want to take a look. the only pics i have online right now are of when it had the terrible poser hair prop on it so don’t look at those, hehe.