| Subject: Re: Rigel 1 |
| From: "Painius" <starswirlernosp@maol.com> |
| Date: 22/02/2007, 17:12 |
| Newsgroups: alt.paranet.ufo,alt.astronomy |
"Llanzlan Klazmon the 15th" <Klazmon@llurdiaxorb.govt> wrote in message
news:Xns98CE7D126592Klazmonllurdiaxorbgo@203.97.37.6...
Odysseus <odysseus1479-at@yahoo-dot.com> wrote in
news:odysseus1479-at-84490C.03533403022007@news.telus.net:
In article <Xns98CB7B4211067Klazmonllurdiaxorbgo@203.97.37.6>,
Llanzlan Klazmon the 15th <Klazmon@llurdiaxorb.govt> wrote:
"skddlbyp" <ghmvdj@fnp.aiu> wrote in
news:12s4h769d2d9na9@corp.supernews.com:
I had a dream: "Humans don't get along with the Earth because they
are
from Rigel 1. Rigel 1 is 50 parsecs away. One days journey."
<snip>
Rigel is a spectral class B8 supergiant with a luminosity about forty
thousand times that of the Sun and good chunk of that luminosity is in
the ultra violet. You wouldn't want to be anywhere near this system
unless you are planning on getting a serious tan. It's also much
younger than the Sun as stars of Rigel's mass don't last very long on
the main sequence.
It's also some two to three hundred parsecs away from here. I suppose
that's four to six days' journey. ;)
Well yes, choke, cough ;-).
Klazmon.
LOL...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigel
Rigel's an interesting giant! It's believed to have
used up all its hydrogen. Rigel is a binary star,
Rigel A and Rigel B. In sci-fi, numbers are usually
reserved for planets, as in Earth being "Sol 3".
Rigel 1 would then refer to the closest planet to
Rigel.
In the study of exoplanets (planets going around
other stars) the planets are almost always suffixed
by a "b", as in Rigel A b, Rigel A c, etc. (The letters
c, d, and e would be used for multiple exoplanets
discovered around the same star.)
While there have been over 200 exoplanets found
to date, i cannot find one around either of the
Rigel pair. However, the Rigels are not yet on the
list of studied stars that do not have planets, either.
So the OP, skddlbyp's, last question has not yet
been answered as far as i can tell.
Go Orion!
happy days and...
starry starry nights!