Bob Hughes nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2005-07-30 18:52:
> I decided to give this new planet a try. Calling it Morpheus because I 
> haven't seen the official name yet, and besides, this name makes sense to me 
> because it is a Greek god of dreams or sleep. It's supposed to be about the 
> size of the Moon, or a little less, but I don't know anything more than that 

> 
> What do you think about either my render here or the discovery? I read about 
> it while browsing through space-related web sites, first, then saw it 
> mentioned on TV news today. Here's one place that tells about it:
> 
> http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/29jul_planetx.htm
> 
> BTW, the bright speck along the left side of this image is the Sun. Nothing 
> actually to scale here since the sun's disk would never be seen anyway. The 
> planet is made from four multiplied functions used for isosurface; 3 
> different crackle and 1 wrinkles. Stars are simply small-scaled granite.
> 
> Thanks for looking!
> Bob Hughes
> 
> 
> 
Very dark! But that to be expected when you are that far away from the sun. More
realistic than the 
artist representation that I saw.

Alain

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