Notes for Astronomy Haiku 1-5-21
These are the notes for Astronomy Haiku 1-5-21.
WARNING: Here there be flypaper for eyeballs and plotbunnies galore. Think carefully about how much time you have available before clicking through.
Exoplanets are planets outside the Sol system. The first was discovered in 1995. There are over 4,000 documented now. Listen to a musical representation of their discoveries.
Eyeball planets come in two versions, icy and hot. They both have a cold side and a hot side because they are tidally locked, one side always facing the sun.
Some strange planets orbit superdense neutron stars, like the three around the pulsar PSR B1257+12. They may consist of exotic matter.
Among the exotic types of alien worlds are carbon planets, water worlds / snowball planets, chthonian planets, eccentric planets, and rogue planets.
Arroje (Push) Pushing follower away before leading giro.
Giro (Turn) Giro is a turning step of the follower around the leader's axis (called the molinete). A common name for this figure is the "grapevine", alternating front and back steps connected by a side step. It is composed of several steps which complete a circle. One of the most common variants is composed of 4 steps (forward step, open step, back step, open step). Sequence of giro steps can follow square or be executed in circular motion (vals). Variants may include just 3 steps around the leader.
-- Figures of Argentine Tango
ADJECTIVE TYPE MASCULINE SINGULAR FORM MASCULINE PLURAL FORM FEMININE SINGULAR FORM FEMININE PLURAL FORM
Third person singular (él, ella) su sus su sus
-- Possessive Adjectives in Spanish
arroje y giro con
su amado sol
literal:
push and turn with
her beloved sun
in haiku form:
performs a push and turn with
her beloved sun
"The Cat That Walked by Himself" (in The Just So Stories) by Rudyard Kipling is a story about domestication. Or not.
GJ 436b has a surprising lack of methane. The element is common to many planets in our solar system.
Iron-rich or "cannonball" planets may have iron carbonyl and other exotic volatiles instead of than water.
Among the outrageous planets are charcoal planets, binary systems, fast planets, cork planets, fire and ice, lava oceans, quickyear planets, and punching bag planets.
Polyamory is a relationship among more than two partners, typically involving sex/romance but some polycules have members who are asexual and/or aromantic. These can form different shapes, such as a V, triad, or couple+1. Likewise, two stars and a planet can have various orbital configurations.
Hot Jupiter type planets can have unusual clouds and precipitation: smog, rubies, and so on.
A super-exotic super-Earth has exceptionally dense rock, like a bodybuilder of a planet.
This article examines the life-supporting potential of biofluids other than water, such as ammonia and sulfuric acid.
Hubble revealed a new type of planet: GJ 1214b is a water world with a steambath atmosphere.
Three "super-puff" planets around the star Kepler-51 have the density of cotton candy.
A large planet half the mass of Jupiter orbits a tiny red dwarf star called GJ 3512, defying expectations.
"Impossible" planets include HR 8799 b, a super-Jupiter; and super-Earths that look like the should have been gas giants but aren't.
WASP-76b is an ultra-hot giant where it rains liquid iron.
Hot Jupiters have exotic atmosphere with aluminum oxide clouds and titanium rain.
The ultrahot Neptune LTT 9779 b orbits a sunlike star.
Mini-Neptunes may be covered with water in a strange state between liquid and gas.
The triple system GW Orionis has a bizarrely mangled protoplanetary disc that may be disrupted by planetary formation.
LTT 1445Ab has three suns, but one looks much bigger in the sky, leaving the other two like a pair of ominous red eyes.
These 24 exoplanets may be superhabitable worlds, more hospitable to life than Earth is. That makes them worthy of extra study.
In a young system, the giant Jupiter-type HD 106906b has a strongly elliptical orbit.
The Circle of Security comes from attachment theory, in which secure attachment is the healthiest mode. A child moves away from the parent to explore and toward the parent to seek comfort, like a planet in a highly elliptical orbit.
Among the most terrifying planets:
* HD 189733 b, where it rains glass sideways
* CoRot-7 b, two hells in one, hot and cold
* GJ 436 b, the planet of burning ice
* 55 Cancri E, Planet Jenssen, fire and ash
* Wasp 12 b, being devoured by its sun
* TRAPPIST-1b, whose fellow planets appear as bloody "moons" in its sky
"How many licks?" was the key question of a Tootsie Pop ad campaign.
A mini-Neptune has water and temperatures that could support life.
Trojans have a co-orbital configuration, of which various examples exist. A system with a habitable Trojan body is theoretically possible., e.g. a star as A, a giant planet as B, and an Earth-like and habitable planet as C
The pulsar Lich (PSR B1257+12) has three known planets: Phobetor (PSR B1257+12 d), Poltergeist (PSR B1257+12 c), and Draugr (PSR B1257+12 b).
Planets with two suns are sometimes called "Tatooine" planets after a Star Wars reference. Surviving planets in binary systems are often far out to avoid getting torn apart by the system's complex gravity.
Luke Skywalker: [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.
These are some of the planet types you meet in the Milky Way:
* Kelt-11b is as puffy as styrofoam due to the heat of its subgiant star.
* Fomalhaut B is a directly imaged exoplanet.
* 51 Pegasi b is a hot Jupiter orbiting a Sun-like star.
* Our closest neighboring exoplanet is probably the one around Proxima Centauri b, but we don't know much about it yet except that it has at least 1.3 times the mass of Earth.
Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper is a classic science fiction novel, although its interpretation of "day" is different.
WARNING: Here there be flypaper for eyeballs and plotbunnies galore. Think carefully about how much time you have available before clicking through.
Exoplanets are planets outside the Sol system. The first was discovered in 1995. There are over 4,000 documented now. Listen to a musical representation of their discoveries.
Eyeball planets come in two versions, icy and hot. They both have a cold side and a hot side because they are tidally locked, one side always facing the sun.
Some strange planets orbit superdense neutron stars, like the three around the pulsar PSR B1257+12. They may consist of exotic matter.
Among the exotic types of alien worlds are carbon planets, water worlds / snowball planets, chthonian planets, eccentric planets, and rogue planets.
Arroje (Push) Pushing follower away before leading giro.
Giro (Turn) Giro is a turning step of the follower around the leader's axis (called the molinete). A common name for this figure is the "grapevine", alternating front and back steps connected by a side step. It is composed of several steps which complete a circle. One of the most common variants is composed of 4 steps (forward step, open step, back step, open step). Sequence of giro steps can follow square or be executed in circular motion (vals). Variants may include just 3 steps around the leader.
-- Figures of Argentine Tango
ADJECTIVE TYPE MASCULINE SINGULAR FORM MASCULINE PLURAL FORM FEMININE SINGULAR FORM FEMININE PLURAL FORM
Third person singular (él, ella) su sus su sus
-- Possessive Adjectives in Spanish
arroje y giro con
su amado sol
literal:
push and turn with
her beloved sun
in haiku form:
performs a push and turn with
her beloved sun
"The Cat That Walked by Himself" (in The Just So Stories) by Rudyard Kipling is a story about domestication. Or not.
GJ 436b has a surprising lack of methane. The element is common to many planets in our solar system.
Iron-rich or "cannonball" planets may have iron carbonyl and other exotic volatiles instead of than water.
Among the outrageous planets are charcoal planets, binary systems, fast planets, cork planets, fire and ice, lava oceans, quickyear planets, and punching bag planets.
Polyamory is a relationship among more than two partners, typically involving sex/romance but some polycules have members who are asexual and/or aromantic. These can form different shapes, such as a V, triad, or couple+1. Likewise, two stars and a planet can have various orbital configurations.
Hot Jupiter type planets can have unusual clouds and precipitation: smog, rubies, and so on.
A super-exotic super-Earth has exceptionally dense rock, like a bodybuilder of a planet.
This article examines the life-supporting potential of biofluids other than water, such as ammonia and sulfuric acid.
Hubble revealed a new type of planet: GJ 1214b is a water world with a steambath atmosphere.
Three "super-puff" planets around the star Kepler-51 have the density of cotton candy.
A large planet half the mass of Jupiter orbits a tiny red dwarf star called GJ 3512, defying expectations.
"Impossible" planets include HR 8799 b, a super-Jupiter; and super-Earths that look like the should have been gas giants but aren't.
WASP-76b is an ultra-hot giant where it rains liquid iron.
Hot Jupiters have exotic atmosphere with aluminum oxide clouds and titanium rain.
The ultrahot Neptune LTT 9779 b orbits a sunlike star.
Mini-Neptunes may be covered with water in a strange state between liquid and gas.
The triple system GW Orionis has a bizarrely mangled protoplanetary disc that may be disrupted by planetary formation.
LTT 1445Ab has three suns, but one looks much bigger in the sky, leaving the other two like a pair of ominous red eyes.
These 24 exoplanets may be superhabitable worlds, more hospitable to life than Earth is. That makes them worthy of extra study.
In a young system, the giant Jupiter-type HD 106906b has a strongly elliptical orbit.
The Circle of Security comes from attachment theory, in which secure attachment is the healthiest mode. A child moves away from the parent to explore and toward the parent to seek comfort, like a planet in a highly elliptical orbit.
Among the most terrifying planets:
* HD 189733 b, where it rains glass sideways
* CoRot-7 b, two hells in one, hot and cold
* GJ 436 b, the planet of burning ice
* 55 Cancri E, Planet Jenssen, fire and ash
* Wasp 12 b, being devoured by its sun
* TRAPPIST-1b, whose fellow planets appear as bloody "moons" in its sky
"How many licks?" was the key question of a Tootsie Pop ad campaign.
A mini-Neptune has water and temperatures that could support life.
Trojans have a co-orbital configuration, of which various examples exist. A system with a habitable Trojan body is theoretically possible., e.g. a star as A, a giant planet as B, and an Earth-like and habitable planet as C
The pulsar Lich (PSR B1257+12) has three known planets: Phobetor (PSR B1257+12 d), Poltergeist (PSR B1257+12 c), and Draugr (PSR B1257+12 b).
Planets with two suns are sometimes called "Tatooine" planets after a Star Wars reference. Surviving planets in binary systems are often far out to avoid getting torn apart by the system's complex gravity.
Luke Skywalker: [griping about Tatooine] If there's a bright center to the universe, you're on the planet that it's farthest from.
These are some of the planet types you meet in the Milky Way:
* Kelt-11b is as puffy as styrofoam due to the heat of its subgiant star.
* Fomalhaut B is a directly imaged exoplanet.
* 51 Pegasi b is a hot Jupiter orbiting a Sun-like star.
* Our closest neighboring exoplanet is probably the one around Proxima Centauri b, but we don't know much about it yet except that it has at least 1.3 times the mass of Earth.
Four-Day Planet by H. Beam Piper is a classic science fiction novel, although its interpretation of "day" is different.