Hatty Planets: Post Your Planet of the Hats Here

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

They're not going call themselves by a catalog number. It'll be called something like "New Frontier'.

Gliese 380 is a star and not a planet. It'd have to be "Gliese 380 a" or something like that at a minimum.

Though it also seems to be known as "Groombridge 1618"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groombridge_1618

It's no9t a likely candidate fir a Earth-like planet at all being a K8 orange dwarf and a BY Draconis variable star. That means any planets in the habitable zone would be tide-locked _and_ fried by the flare activity. If they existed at all because the star is lower in complex elements than Sol too.

I'm afraid this might be the sort of feedback you'll get around here. Wetake our planetology pretty seriously.

Another fun fact is that this thread is the 8th item that comes up on Google when searching for "Gliese 380". :)

Finally, what makes these planets "hatty"? you haven't explained about the hats at all. It'd have to be a heck of a hat to protect from the stellar flares.