They discover the shock of two planets around a star

American scientists found evidences of which two planets to about 300 years Earth light hit recently, which constitutes a first fruit in astronomy, he indicated a report of experts in California (the west).

“He is as if the Earth and Venus hit to each other”, it said Zuckerman Youngest child, professor of physics and astronomy of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), that altogether participated in this report with the Technological Institute of California in Pasadena (CALTECH) and the Public University of Tennessee (South).

According to this study, that will be published in detail in the edition of December of Astrophysical Journal, the investigators observed an important and little habitual amount of dust in orbit around the implied star, BD+20 307, in the constellation of Aries, which only can be the result of a shock between two planets. According to Zuckerman, in theory something thus is possible that it happens in our Solar System.

“Many astronomers think that our Moon formed when two planet embryos, a young Land and a body of more or less the size of Mars, collided”, pointed the expert.

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