--- In [email protected], "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To All Members: > > An article of a new exoplanet is shown below. Is there intelligent > life on the planet? I believe MMY would say that the planet is a > form of intelligence, but not necessarily one that most earthlings > are expecting. > > Article Excerpt > > The largest planet ever discovered is also one of the strangest and > theoretically should not even exist, scientists say. > > Dubbed TrES-4, the planet is about 1.7 times the size of Jupiter and > belongs to a small subclass of "puffy" planets that have extremely > low densities. The finding will be detailed in an upcoming issue of > Astrophysical Journal. > > > "Its mean density is only about 0.2 grams per cubic centimeter, or > about the density of balsa wood," said study leader Georgi Mandushev > of the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. "And because of the planet's > relatively weak pull on its upper atmosphere, some of the atmosphere > probably escapes in a comet-like tail." >
I wouldn't call it "puffy"...I'd call it "paisley"
