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    Scientists discover largest planet ever
    Topic Started: Sep 23 2006, 08:18 PM (348 Views)
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    http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/14/p...pace&ref=google

    The planet would also be able to float on water! :o
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    SMRPG1
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    Float on Water? Can't Jupitar do the same?

    But that sounds pretty awesome. I want to see it.
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    Sweet. I've never heard of a planet being able to float on water.
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    SMRPG1
    Sep 23 2006, 09:45 PM
    Float on Water? Can't Jupitar do the same?

    But that sounds pretty awesome. I want to see it.

    Jupiter has a heavy, rocky core, so I don't think it could.
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    Edit: Here's an artists concept of what it looks like but i'd rather see what it really looks like
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    Ramen Hood
    Paul's dumb Alex is cool

    I wonder what would happen if you stood on it.
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    Ramen Hood
    Sep 23 2006, 10:30 PM
    I wonder what would happen if you stood on it.

    You'd fall right to the center of it. :P But you'd probably die from the harmful gases on the way down.
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    How big is it then? Is it million times the size of the earth?
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    Wolf
    Sep 23 2006, 08:58 PM
    Edit: Here's an artists concept of what it looks like but i'd rather see what it really looks like

    Good luck with that, it's 450 lightyears away.

    And for something that big to float on water, it's probably lest dense. It's really just a gravitated cloud of gas. It may have even collapsed in on itself in the last 450 years.

    However, if that planet was as dense as the earth, it's gravatational pull would reel in and crush anything that came near it. As Matt says, it's gassy, so you'd probably just fall to the center.
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    Sep 24 2006, 12:06 AM
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    Sep 23 2006, 08:58 PM
    Edit: Here's an artists concept of what it looks like but i'd rather see what it really looks like

    Good luck with that, it's 450 lightyears away.

    We've taken pictures of things billions of light years away.
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    It's called a telescope. :P
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    It looks cool. I like that it's large. I'm tired of getting all excited over "New Planet Discovered!" articles only to find out that they're the size of pebbles.
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    SMRPG1
    Sep 23 2006, 08:45 PM
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    ARR. Er, no. Saturn is less dense than water, though. So if you could find a bathtub big enough, it'd float. But it would leave a ring. Haha I'm the greatest. Seriously, though, Saturn is less dense than water.

    Interesting news, Matty. I'd like to learn more about its size and mass, though. we only really get its density and period.
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