From: Joel Peter Anderson (joela@umn.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 09:32:10 EST
Time for a new acronym?
YENC? YEF? (Young Earths Non-Created, Young Earth Formation)
Building Planets in Record Time
Gas giants may form in as little as a few hundred years.
by Pamela L. Gay
The "standard model" of planetary formation has undergone rapid evolution
in the past 15 years. During this time, observational astronomers have
discovered about 100 extrasolar planets with masses similar to or greater
than Jupiter's. In an effort to understand these alien worlds, theoretical
astronomers have created new, more detailed models of the birth and youth
of solar systems. If these models are correct, then worlds like Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune formed in only a few hundred years.
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