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Old 09-15-2006, 12:38 PM   #1
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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 ]
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Old 09-15-2006, 03:51 PM   #2
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3244.4... you young whippersnapper!
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Old 09-15-2006, 06:10 PM   #3
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1297.7.... Brilliant!
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Old 09-15-2006, 06:55 PM   #4
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Hmmm...

(([Age]*365) + 290(days since my last birthday) + 12(leap years I have seen)) / 4.5 = 3879.33

So I'm over 38 centuries old but I still cannot get a senior's discount on the bus. [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 09-15-2006, 07:12 PM   #5
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3487.3

Whats with all those old geezers? [img]graemlins/heee.gif[/img]
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Old 09-15-2006, 07:17 PM   #6
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1622.2 Years old, still just a youngin...
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Old 09-16-2006, 12:07 AM   #7
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15695 + 275 + 11 / 4.5 = 3551.3~

Thereby, you have a few more centuries to become proficient in the art of throwing sand. {Like your new sig addition}.
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Old 09-16-2006, 12:24 AM   #8
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So how old would you be in doggy years ?
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Old 09-16-2006, 01:18 AM   #9
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Originally posted by Felix The Assassin:
15695 + 275 + 11 / 4.5 = 3551.3~

Thereby, you have a few more centuries to become proficient in the art of throwing sand. {Like your new sig addition}.
Thanks [img]smile.gif[/img]
yeah, throwing sand takes is a big dicipline and hard skill to develop [img]tongue.gif[/img]

meh, all you 3 century year old geezers [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Old 09-16-2006, 05:07 AM   #10
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I have lived through 6 Leap Years, so that is an additional 6 days.

[9 + (365*23) + 6 + (365-106)] / 4.5 = 1926.44 years as of today.

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