May 24, 2017 04:55 AM
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/synestia-ne...ary-object
EXCERPT: There’s something new to look for in the heavens, and it’s called a “synestia,” according to planetary scientists Simon Lock at Harvard University and Sarah Stewart at the University of California, Davis. A synestia, they propose, would be a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as planet-sized objects smash into each other. And at one point early in its history, the Earth itself was likely a synestia, said Stewart....
ALSO: http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/scientis...d-synestia
EXCERPT: There’s something new to look for in the heavens, and it’s called a “synestia,” according to planetary scientists Simon Lock at Harvard University and Sarah Stewart at the University of California, Davis. A synestia, they propose, would be a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as planet-sized objects smash into each other. And at one point early in its history, the Earth itself was likely a synestia, said Stewart....
ALSO: http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/scientis...d-synestia