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ChemicalBR0

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« on: May 03, 2011, 04:06:08 AM »
why is it when scientists (and people in general) talk about planets around other stars they call it a solar system?

there's really only 1 solar system and that's ours, with our lovely star Sol.

a system around another star, Antares for example should be an Antalar system.

it's bugged me since i was a kid. Undecided
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« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2011, 07:21:11 AM »
I call it a planetary system. Smiley

Kepler-11ar system?
alpha Aretisar system?
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« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2011, 07:29:06 AM »
Wikipedia calls it that too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_system
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2011, 07:35:14 AM »
Gahhh gotta call it something else now.  Tongue
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« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2011, 08:21:24 AM »
well done to Wiki.  Grin
I was watching Discovery the other night and they kept talking about solar systems.
(they were talking about the discovery of 51peg C)

i was shouting at the TV it's a pegalar system Smiley
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