Moontanman Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 Recently found super dense planets about the size of the Earth but denser than iron could the remnants of Neptune like ice giants that migrated too close to their home stars. Theories about planet formation do not adequately explain these super dense planets.. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=puzzling-super-dense-space-objects-could-be-a-new-type-of-planet&WT.mc_id=SA_DD_20130314 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Peon Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 (edited) That is really cool. I guess we found supermans home planet Edited March 18, 2013 by The Peon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted March 19, 2013 Author Share Posted March 19, 2013 Reminds me a science fiction novel where the protagonists were mining the surface of a previously Jupiter class planet in orbit around a star that had gone super nova, the outer layers had been blown away and super heavy elements had been deposited on the surface of the remnant of the planet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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