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- From: wa2ise@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (robert.f.casey)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: was: question about SETI, now: planets around pulsars?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.020559.10713@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 02:05:59 GMT
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- In article <C0HvLB.1op@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >Actually very little, as these things go. The ongoing SETI efforts are
- >quite small.
- >Astronomers are very interested in the immediate vicinity of pulsars,
- >because it's an excellent bet that you can find objects of great theoretical
- >interest (accretion disks and such) there. Peculiar and conspicuous objects
- >thereabouts would not be missed. And yes, astronomers take the possibility
- >of finding an extraterrestrial beacon quite seriously -- the first pulsars
- >caused a considerable stir until it was clear that they were just natural
- >phenomena.
-
- About a year or so ago, some astronomers thought that they might have
- found planets orbiting a pulsar. One suspect pulsar planetary system
- turned out to be false (orbit of one "planet" was 1/2 the time of Earth's,
- and thus suspect), but another looked good then. Anyone know if this
- other (at the time) good detection has held up? Confirmed?
-