Planet cannibalism

[gittyup]

story

 

[MrHelpful]

That's a new one.... :Q

 

[Asha'man]

whoa

eeevil sun

 

[yakko]

Glad I don't live there.

 

[Azraele]

<<Such planets are unlike any in our solar system and confound traditional theories of planetary formation. >>

Sounds like we have a long way to go as far as planetary science is concerned.

Could an asteroid have been the culprit, traveling too close to the sun's gravitational field, getting it pulled in?

It seems odd that a planet's orbit could lead to such a thing.

 

[vi edit]

BUUUUUUURP!

 

[Spoooon]

They said the planet's orbit was elliptical. It could be that over time the orbit was pulled tighter and tighter until finally it couldn't overcome the sun's gravity any longer.

 

[LordMaul]

<< Glad I don't live there. >>



Yet...

 

[Amused]

&quot;Using the European Southern Observatory telescope in Atacama, Chile, the astronomers detected the presence of a rare variety of lithium in the star. The fragile metal would have been destroyed in the early, explosive evolutionary stages of this particular kind of star, which like our own is rich in heavy metals.

The best explanation that can account for the lithium is that the star ingested it much later, the Spanish and Swiss research team concluded.&quot;

Or maybe the star was psychotic, and needed to take lithium?