Extra-Galactic Planet Discovered In Milky Way

astroengine writes "Between six to nine billion years ago, the Milky Way collided with another galaxy. As you'd expect, this caused quite a mess; stars, dust and gas being ripped from the intergalactic interloper. In fact, to this day, the dust hasn't quite settled and astronomers have spotted an odd-looking exoplanet orbiting a metal-poor star 2,000 light-years from Earth. Through a careful process of elimination, the extrasolar planet (known as HIP 13044b) actually works out to be an extragalactic planet, a surviving relic of the massive collision eons ago."

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[__aatirs3925]

She said she was 18...

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[magpie]

six thousand years old of-course.

In other news...

[pedantic bore]

... new legislation in Arizona is already being written to address the issues of extragalactic planets mixing and mingling with our stars, taking orbits that could be used for native planets.

Lets hope they remember their classics...

[itsdapead]

"Hip 13044b" is a waste of a perfectly good excuse to name it Eddore [wikipedia.org].

OK, so its extra-galactic rather than extra-dimensional, but that's the closest we're likely to get, and Doc Smith had colliding galaxies, too.

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[operagost]

Why don't we just call it an "immigrant" star, then? Since this is the first time we're hearing of it, and it's billions of years old, it's probably here illegally^W^W undocumented. I suggest we give it full social security and Medicaid entitlements, plus in-galaxy tuition at the college of its choice.

Damn lawyers!

[Anonymous Coward]

Between six to nine billion years ago, the Milky Way collided with another galaxy. ... In fact, to this day, the dust hasn't quite settled

Damn lawyers tying up the courts for six billion years over a traffic accident. Bastards.

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[GodfatherofSoul]

Like Canadians?

Re:I call bullshit on that

[Rogerborg]

they calculated the chances of this being a false alarm at 5.5 × 10^-6

LEEEEEEEEEEEEROY JENNNNKINS!

Re:Title is confusing or incorrect

[Rogerborg]

There was a collision between our galaxy and another one, and ours ripped a planet from the other one

How... virile of us.

If more astronomers were women, I expect we'd talk about enfolding another galaxy and gently persuading a planet to move in with us.

Re:In other news...

[Tumbleweed]

... new legislation in Arizona is already being written to address the issues of extragalactic planets mixing and mingling with our stars, taking orbits that could be used for native planets.

Yeah, we don't want any 'anchor planets'!

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[Chris Burke]

Do you know how long galactic Visas last for?