Back when I was a kid, I was thought that 1 year consisted of one whole rotation of earth around the sun.
well this article is quite interesting
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WASHINGTON - The largest planet ever found orbiting another star is so puffy it would float on water, astronomers said Thursday. The newly discovered planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is both the largest and least dense of the nearly 200 worlds astronomers have found outside our own solar system.
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HAT-P-1 orbits one of a pair of stars in the constellation Lacerta, about 450 light-years from Earth.
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"This new planet, if you could imagine putting it in a cosmic water glass, it would float," said Robert Noyes, a research astrophysicist with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The planet, a gas giant, is probably a puffed up ball of hydrogen and helium.
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HAT-P-1 is an oddball planet, since it orbits its parent star at just one-twentieth of the distance that separates Earth from our own sun. While Earth takes a year to orbit the sun, the newly found planet whips around its star once every 4.5 days.
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Astronomers believe HAT-P-1 may belong to an entirely new class of planets, along with a second, smaller distant world that's also puffier than theories would have predicted, Noyes said.
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Astronomers used a network of telescopes in Arizona and Hawaii to discover the planet. Its parent star is too faint to see with the naked eye but can be spied with binoculars.
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Sooo, on this planet what rotates around the sun in 4.5 days, I did a simple calculation that technically I would be 1,865.55 years old.
I did a simple math equation wherein 365/4.5 = 81.11 * [AGE] = your age living in HAT-P-1
how old are you? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
[ 09-15-2006, 02:25 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]