re: Twenty New Stellar Neighbors

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TB — 11/15/2006 12:16:58 AM (archived)

I'm no expert, but apparently these things are very hard to see, or they wouldn't have been discovered so recently. What are the chances of finding one that's actually closer to us than the Centauri system?

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Twenty New Stellar Neighbors - LJK - 11/14/2006 8:56:54 PM
- re: Twenty New Stellar Neighbors - SDF - 11/16/2006 8:02:40 AM
  - Brown dwarfs are not dark - ER - 11/18/2006 4:55:10 AM
  - They aren't dark (n/t) - alcaray - 11/17/2006 4:14:20 PM
  - In my limited understanding of the matter...No. - Scott Evil - 11/16/2006 9:43:24 PM
  - Catching a bullet: direct evidence for the existence of dark matter - LJK - 11/16/2006 2:01:07 PM
- Red Dwarfs - REB - 11/15/2006 2:19:56 PM
  - re: Red Dwarfs - Adam - 11/16/2006 9:50:14 PM
- re: Twenty New Stellar Neighbors - TB - 11/15/2006 12:16:58 AM
  - The chances are actually pretty good - ER - 11/15/2006 6:54:34 PM
    - I'll take the bet against - phil - 11/16/2006 1:38:19 AM
      - But there's a long shot... - ER - 11/16/2006 2:37:45 AM
        
        re: But there's a long shot... - phil - 11/16/2006 10:00:58 PM
        
        Understood. Thanks. (n/t) - ER - 11/17/2006 6:02:04 PM
    - re: Those stars are also very very old! (n/t) - Raoul - 11/15/2006 7:22:26 PM
    - Gimme a D... - LJK - 11/15/2006 6:57:14 PM
  - Unlikely - phil - 11/15/2006 3:09:37 AM
- There goes the 'hood. Time to move, Ma. (n/t) - Bowser - 11/14/2006 9:44:00 PM
  - The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters - LJK - 11/15/2006 7:06:42 PM
    - Characterization of Gravitational Microlensing Planetary Host Stars - LJK - 11/16/2006 1:50:14 PM

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