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Published online 18 June 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/453965b

Astronomical wordplay keeps them guessing

Planet discovery is embedded in an anagram.

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  • The discovery of extra-solar planets would be advanced if astronomers would first invest a little time to study and comment on empirical evidence that our Sun exploded five billion years ago (5 Ga) and ejected the material that now orbits our Sun as planets, asteroids, moons, comets and other planetary rubble. It makes no sense to ignore experimental data that show how planets formed here, in the Solar System, and randomly search for planets around other stars. Here are links to the experimental data: http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1960Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1972Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1975Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1976Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1972Data1.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1983Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1991Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1993Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1994Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1996Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/1998Data.htm http://www.omatumr.com/Data/2000Data.htm

    • 18 Jun, 2008
    • Posted by: O M

  • Christopher Huygens? Who's that? Do you mean Christiaan Huygens?

    • 27 Jun, 2008
    • Posted by: russell bell