a blue giant star captures a system of rogue planets;
a rogue planet passes near a giant star;
a Merseian naval unit has a base on a rogue planet;
a rogue planet collides with a star.
That is a deal of interactions with elusive rogue planets.
On Earth, the floating city of Delfinburg:
touches at Djakarta, where van Rijn has an office;
proceeds through the Makassar Strait;
then proceeds through the Celebes;
enters the Pacific;
passes near the Marianas;
prepares for van Rijn to enter the Micronesia Cup regatta.
Van Rijn's drilling of his crew would have appalled Captain Bligh.
Space and sea, so to say.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And of course a rogue planet was a major factor in ENSIGN FLANDRY. And were you thinking it's a bit implausible for to be seen so often? Maybe not, not if you think in terms of both centuries and a civilization which had FTL space travel.
Sean
Sean,
Anderson stresses that they are rare but also uses them as often as he can think of a new plot twist. Falkayn tells a story of discovering one although it had happened to someone else.
Paul.
The estimate for the number of rogue planets seems to have gone up since Anderson wrote those stories.
From Wikipedia
"The Milky Way alone may have billions to trillions of rogue planets, a range the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will likely be able to narrow."
Another web search gives me a figure of 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
So there are likely as many rogue planets as stars in the galaxy.
Kaor, Jim!
It seems that the more astronomers find out the more we have to scale up the numbers!
Ad astra! Sean
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