Formerly a single star struck by a rogue planetoid donating some fusing mass and capturing the invader?
The rogue's glow would be short lived in such case I would think. T On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/the-astrophysical-journal/ > > A mystery companion planetoid forms a binary system with a brown dwarf, > located 460 light-years away in Taurus. The object is too small to be > another brown dwarf, too young to have formed by accretion, and heavier than > most planets - but too light for nuclear fusion. The object’s mass is > between 5-10 Jupiters, making it too small to fuse deuterium. The > International Astronomical Union uses 13 Jupiter masses as the threshold for > fusion. > > Yet look a the image. There is clearly a subdued glow in the sphere to the > right of the dwarf - as evidence by the few lit pixels, which could not > possibly have been caused reflection from the brown dwarf, or heating from > the dwarf due to its rotation in front of that star and great distance. > > Since the glow cannot be evidence of hot fusion, a few vorticians may be led > to wonder - what about LENR? or fractional hydrogen as the source?
