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Igel

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2. The wrinkle is that we don't know of planets around the "star".

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Oct 10, 2019, 07:36 PM

Oct 2019

On the other hand, Kruger 60 is a red dwarf binary, so it might not have been a planetary system but an interaction between the two stars and the object that sent the snowball flying in our direction.

Great, now we have to hurl a snowball back, otherwise it's just humiliating.

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I love it when amateur astronomers make finds like this. They have the advantage when it comes to Nitram Oct 2019 #1

The wrinkle is that we don't know of planets around the "star". Igel Oct 2019 #2