[meteorite-list] Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars

[Paul H.]

Free-Floating Planets in the Milky Way Outnumber Stars 
by Factors of Thousands: Life-Bearing Planets May Exist 
in Vast Numbers ScienceDaily (May 10, 2012)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510100217.htm

Could billions upon billions of free-floating 'nomadic' 
planets in the Milky Way be seeding our galaxy with 
life. Mail online, May 11, 2012, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2142948/Could-billions-billions-free-floating-nomadic-planets-Milky-Way-seeding-galaxy-life.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Some Stars Capture Rogue Planets (Apr. 17, 2012)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120417113652.htm and http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2012/pr201212.html

Rogue Planets Can Find Homes Around Other Stars
by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, http://www.universetoday.com/94656/rogue-planets-can-find-homes-around-other-stars/

The paper is:

Wickramasingh, N. C., and others, 2012, Life-bearing 
primordial planets in the solar vicinity. Astrophysics and 
Space Science; DOI 10.1007/s10509-012-1092-8

Best wishes,

Paul H.