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“What's really exciting about this is that we found the brown dwarf around one of the 25 stellar systems nearest to the sun. Most of these nearby stars have been known for decades, and only just recently a handful of new objects have been found in our local neighborhood.”
Laird Close
“Although there's no official assessment yet, I think the number of housing units destroyed is going to dwarf any previous disaster. Hurricane Andrew was estimated at 28,000 homes destroyed. The number of homes that are flooded now, that are probably beyond repair, is probably much larger. There are 200,000 homes in New Orleans alone.”
Michael Carliner
“We know of 17 objects that could be called planets, most of which are ice dwarfs. So Pluto is typical of what is probably the most populous type of planet in our solar system. It probably mimics other Kuiper Belt objects.”
Alan Stern
“Just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies.”
“The defining characteristic of a brown dwarf is the mass is low enough that the central temperature never gets high enough to ignite hydrogen fusion.”
Robert Mathieu
“Compared to 80 feet, 20 feet is a dwarf.”
Susan Eyre
“This new planet may just be the tip of the iceberg. Red dwarfs may be a fertile new hunting ground for finding planets, including ones similar in mass to the earth.”
Charles Lada
“Something's got to be replenishing these metals. The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had planets around it, and the system was substantial enough that after billions of years of grinding, there's still enough material to feed the dust disc around the white dwarf.”
Ben Zuckerman
“Something's got to be replenishing these metals, ... The suggestion is maybe this white dwarf had planets around it, and the system was substantial enough that after billions of years of grinding, there's still enough material to feed the dust disc around the white dwarf.”
