Getting scooped

[blobrana]

Hum,
here's something weird i found...

“Getting scooped” is an ongoing occupational hazard for astronomers. A interesting idea pops into your head, or a significant peak starts to emerge in a periodogram, and you drop everything to do an analysis and write up your idea or discovery for submission.

Huge Applet, Unsearchable Terrestrials!

Read more (http://oklo.org/?p=279)

[blobrana]

"Huge Applet, Unsearchable Terrestrials (http://oklo.org/?p=279)! This anagram could hold the clue to an important extrasolar planet discovery. When astronomer Gregory Laughlin of the University of California at Santa Cruz posted it on his blog last month, readers immediately leapt on the puzzle..."

Read more (http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080618/full/453965b.html)

[blobrana]

Any guesses?

Alpha Centauri B ?

[orcot]

ars magna

it's very short

How do you get Alpha centauri B (Wishfull thinking? Annyway if it means something then they should do this more often)

[blobrana]

hehe,

Alpha Centauri B plus the lesser rr eater

[orcot]

I'm betting on planet x a outer planet around our own sun. I'm basing this on absolutly nothing

Alpha centauri can wait a other decade I'm hoping on 9 (5+4) terrestrial planets all between the mass of Mars and Earth. That would be sweet. (It's actualy the best candidate to find live in over what 35LY)