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Astronomers have found a rogue planet ~100 light-years away:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20309762

That Season 1 Enterprise episode doesn't seem so silly now, does it?
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Rogue_P ... episode%29

BTW, physicists have suspected a long time ago that rogue planets may exist, as the N-body problem is chaotic for N>2 and it is quite easy for one of the planets in the system (even in ours) to be kicked out. :vulcan:

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captain_picard wrote:
BTW, physicists have suspected a long time ago that rogue planets may exist, as the N-body problem is chaotic for N>2 and it is quite easy for one of the planets in the system (even in ours) to be kicked out. :vulcan:




Yes and lithium content in the sun's surface suggests a gas giant fell in while it is believed that Jupiter and Saturn gravitationally kicked Neptune and Uranus into higher longer orbits.

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This kind of trumps the fact that in the game random Rogues are always Tiny :mrgreen:
I've removed that limitation. I wanted to for a long time anyway. :wink:


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Iceman wrote:
This kind of trumps the fact that in the game random Rogues are always Tiny :mrgreen:
I've removed that limitation. I wanted to for a long time anyway. :wink:
Indeed, any body can go rogue: a rocky planet or gas giant in a star system, a star in a cluster, a galaxy in a galaxy cluster and so on. This is one of the few cases where size does NOT matter :twistedlaugh:

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Chaos theory is just awesome by the way... :cool:

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