First planet with two suns reported found

[David]

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/110915_circumbinary.htm

First planet with two suns reported found

Sept. 15, 2011
Courtesy of NASA
and World Science staff

The ex­ist­ence of a world with a dou­ble sun­set, as por­trayed in
the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now a known fact, as­tro­
no­mers say.

Sci­en­tists an­nounced Sept. 15 that NASA’s Kep­ler mis­sion has
made the first clear de­tec­tion of a “cir­cumbi­na­ry” plan­et, a
plan­et or­bit­ing two stars. The body is 200 light-years from Earth;
a light-year is the dis­tance light trav­els in a year.

Artist's im­age of a plan­et or moon in a sys­tem with two suns.
(Courtesy NASA JPL)

Un­like Star Wars’ Tatooine, the plan­et is cold, gas­e­ous and not
thought to har­bor life, but its dis­cov­ery demon­strates the di­vers­
ity of plan­ets in our gal­axy, ac­cord­ing to re­search­ers. Pre­vi­
ous re­search had hinted at the ex­ist­ence of cir­cum­bi­nary plan­
ets, but clear con­firma­t­ion proved elu­sive. A 2005 study re­port­
ed a planet in a three-star sys­tem, but it was ap­par­ently only or­
bit­ing one of those stars.

Kep­ler de­tected the plan­et, known as Kep­ler-16b, by ob­serv­ing
tran­sits, events in which the bright­ness of a par­ent star dims from
the plan­et cross­ing in front of it. “This dis­cov­ery con­firms a
new class of plan­etary sys­tems that could har­bor life,” Kep­ler
prin­ci­pal in­ves­ti­ga­tor Wil­liam Borucki said. “Given that most
stars in our gal­axy are part of a bi­na­ry sys­tem, this means the op­
por­tun­i­ties for life are much broader than if plan­ets form only
around sin­gle stars. This mile­stone dis­cov­ery con­firms a the­o­ry
that sci­en­tists have had for dec­ades but could not prove un­til
now.”

A re­search team led by Lau­rance Doyle of the SETI In­sti­tute in
Moun­tain View, Calif., used da­ta from the Kep­ler space tel­e­scope,
which meas­ures dips in the bright­ness of more than 150,000 stars, to
search for tran­sit­ing plan­ets. Kep­ler is the first NASA mis­sion
ca­pa­ble of find­ing Earth-size plan­ets in or near the “hab­it­able
zone,” the re­gion in a plan­etary sys­tem where liq­uid wa­ter can ex­
ist on the sur­face of the or­bit­ing plan­et.

Sci­en­tists de­tected the new plan­et in the Kep­ler-16 sys­tem, a
pair of or­bit­ing stars that eclipse each oth­er from our van­tage
point on Earth. When the smaller star par­tially blocks the larg­er
star, a pri­ma­ry eclipse oc­curs, and a sec­ond­ary eclipse oc­curs
when the smaller star is oc­culted, or com­pletely blocked, by the
larg­er star.

As­tro­no­mers fur­ther ob­served that the bright­ness of the sys­tem
dipped even when the stars were not eclips­ing one anoth­er, hint­ing
at a third body. The ad­di­tion­al dim­ming in bright­ness events,
called the ter­tiary and qua­ter­nary eclipses, reap­peared at ir­reg­
u­lar in­ter­vals of time, in­di­cat­ing the stars were in dif­fer­ent
po­si­tions in their or­bit each time the third body passed. This
showed the third body was cir­cling, not just one, but both stars, in
a wide cir­cumbi­nary or­bit.

The gravita­t­ional tug on the stars, meas­ured by changes in their
eclipse times, was a good in­di­ca­tor of the mass of the third body.
Only a very slight gravita­t­ional pull was de­tected, one that only
could be caused by a small mass. The find­ings are de­scribed in a new
study pub­lished Sept. 16 in the jour­nal Sci­ence.

“Most of what we know about the sizes of stars comes from such eclips­
ing bi­na­ry sys­tems, and most of what we know about the size of plan­
ets comes from tran­sits,” said Doyle, who al­so is the lead au­thor
of the study and a Kep­ler par­ti­ci­pat­ing sci­ent­ist. “Kep­ler-16
com­bines the best of both worlds, with stel­lar eclipses and plan­
etary tran­sits in one sys­tem.”

Kep­ler-16b is an in­hos­pi­ta­b, cold world about the size of Sat­urn
and thought to be made up of about half rock and half gas, as­tro­no­
mers said. The par­ent stars are smaller than our Sun. One is 69 per­
cent the mass of the Sun and the oth­er only 20 per­cent. Kep­ler-16b
or­bits around both stars every 229 days, si­m­i­lar to Venus’ 225-day
or­bit, but lies out­side the sys­tem’s hab­it­a­ble zone, where liq­
uid wa­ter could ex­ist on the sur­face, be­cause the stars are cool­
er than our Sun.

“Work­ing in film, we of­ten are tasked with cre­at­ing some­thing nev­
er be­fore seen,” said vis­u­al ef­fects su­per­vi­sor John Knoll of
In­dus­t­ri­al Light & Mag­ic, a di­vi­sion of Lu­cas­film Ltd., in
San Fran­cis­co. “How­ever, more of­ten than not, sci­en­tif­ic dis­
cov­er­ies prove to be more spec­tac­u­lar than an­y­thing we dare im­
ag­ine. There is no doubt these dis­cov­er­ies in­flu­ence and in­
spire sto­ry­tellers. Their very ex­ist­ence serves as cause to dream
big­ger and open our minds to new pos­si­bil­i­ties be­yond what we
think we ‘know

[Barry Warmkessel]

Marconi, in mid December 1901, made his first successful attempt at intercontinental radio transmissions between Europe and America. His first transmission was an encoded S and V letter transmitted by a crude form of HF using ionospheric bounce techniques. Amazingly, his transmission was reacquired once again in August 1924 (22.6 years later), but with some unusual data added. These signals were examined at the Naval Observatory which recorded the detected signals on photographic film (Robert Jackson; U. F. O. s; Quintet Publishing Limited, 6 Blundell Street, London N7 9BH;1992; pg. 71). The data was displayed in a falling raster format with the raster rate locked to the encoded letter. When the film was developed, the additional data formed the image of a crude face.

Imagine the following scenario. Marconi's signal was intercepted on the Moon. The Moon is only a hundred times more distant than Marconi's primitive receivers. These signals were relayed to 61 Cygni, 11.2 light years distant. Did the Denaerde aliens copy the transmission, modify it and relay it back to the Moon where it was rebroadcast to the Earth? Was this the signal analyzed at the Observatory 22.4 years later? Did this incident mark the United States Navy's first recognition of an extra-terrestrial civilization?

The gov. did not want to be directly involved in looking for extra-terrestrial aliens in those days.  So foundations were sought and  private fund  of binocular telescopes called astrographs was started.  This research started to pay dividends around the time of WW II and several binary star systems were discovered to have planets.  The USSR confirmed and expanded this research on these star systems.  But the doppler technique did not confirm these findings and I am not too sure of what to think about this new technique.

TABLE 1
Astro-Metric Prediction And Detection Of Planets Orbiting Some Nearby Multiple Star Systems

Star System	Detected Planet/Small Star	Orbit/Period
Alpha Centauri	Proxima Centauri (ignited)	13,000 AU/-
	Danjo Predicts Proxima	12,620 AU Predicted
UV Ceti	Small planets possible	3.0 AU/16 years
		2.6 AU Predicted
Grb 34	Planets predicted, none found to date
61 Cygni	Largest Planet orbiting The A Star	2.4 AU/4.9 years
		2.4 AU Predicted
	Largest Planet orbiting The B Star	2.8 AU/7.0 years
		2.1-2.4 AU Predicted
Sigma 2398	Planets predicted, none found to date
Kruger 60	1 possible, large errors	4.1 AU/16 years
		4.5 AU Predicted
26 Draconis	26 Draconis C (ignited)	10,000 AU/-
	Danjo Predicts 26 Drac. C	9270 AU Predicted

Some other research has shown that some of these stars are associated with UFO aliens.

Note the involvement of SETI with this research and remember that Jill Tarter, head of SETI, wrote her Ph.D dissertation on brown dwarf stars.

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From the book Series
The Unexplained Mysteries of Mind Space and Time
SIGNALS FROM THE STARS?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Since the earliest days of radio, mysterious and seemingly
intelligible signals have occasionally been received from outer space.
Are they merely chance anomalies, or are alien forces trying to make
contact?

Michael Vinter investigates.

---------------------------------

OFFICIAL RECORDS STATE that the first radio transmissions directed
specifically at the stars were dispatched from Arecibo, Puerto Rico,
in 1974. But this was not, in fact, our earliest attempt to attract
the attention of other worlds. Well before the term 'extraterrestrial
intelligence' was coined, two men had received intelligent signals -
at a time when theirs were the only functioning radio sets on the
planet earth.

The first man was the eccentric genius Nikola Tesla. In 1899 he was
working his own, employing dangerously high voltages in an attempt to
develop a means of transmitting energy by radio and thus eliminate the
need for wiring systems. Throughout that long, hot summer he loosed
artificial bolts of lighting into the sky from a 200-foot (60-metre)
tower at his base in Colorado Springs - in an intelligible sequence.
The began a mystery that still puzzles scientist. Having succeeded in
making the lights and other electrical equipment work without wiring,
Tesla saw his radio equipment inexplicably begin to register signals -
in which, he later said he could discern 'a clear suggestion of number
and order not traceable to any cause then known to me.' He was
entirely familiar with the natural phenomena of solar disturbances,
earth currents and aurora borealis, and he dismissed them all, adding:
"The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to
hear the greeting of one planet to another.'

Unfortunately Tesla's strange, mystic nature, his identification with
telepathy and the growing school of modern Spiritualism led to
ridicule, especially when he was unwary enough to say to a reporter,
'We cannot even with positive assurance assert that some of them [life
forms from other realms] might not be present here in this world, in
the very midst of us...their life manifestations may be such that we
are unable to see them.'

It is perhaps understandable that, at the time, this seemed to many to
be merely the ramblings of a madman. But in the same summer of 1899
another genius, a man with none of Tesla's Mysticism, was reaching
similar conclusions. That man was Guglielmo Marconi.

At the time of Tesla's startling 'other worlds' announcement, Marconi
was developing radio as a means of communication, busily sending the
letter V in Morse code to his fellow workers over a 50-mile (80-
kilometre) distance. And by 1921 he, too, had announced that he had
received inexplicable signals, which he quickly identified as some
kind of cipher. He later noticed a very strange feature. Within the
cipher, there appeared a measured recurrence of the Morse V he had
been transmitting to his assistants back in 1899.

In the New York Times of 2 September 1921, Marconi was reported as
believing that the mysterious signals, or some of them, originated on
Mars. Incredible as it seems, no one made the connection with the
signals Tesla had received 22 years earlier.

This oversight becomes more understandable when it is realized that
the only common factor in the work of Tesla and Marconi was radio. The
nature of their experiments was very different: Marconi was working in
Morse code on the development of communications technology, while
Tesla was entirely preoccupied with the wire-less propagation of
electrical energies. It was only much later that Tesla admitted that,
if it were possible to draw power from the Earth's magnetic field, it
would be of such awesome intensity that it would be possible to deploy
it as a signal to other worlds.

Both Tesla's and Marconi's observations were largely ignored until
1924. In that year, Mars was due to approach its closest opposition to
the Earth. Mr David Todd, a prominent British astronomer, conceived
the notion of using a brand-new invention to scan the red planet for
traces of life. This was the Jenkins radio camera, a revolution in
technology, which converted radio signals into visual images and was
used for sending press photographs. Todd's imaginative project
captured news headlines, and whole governments devoted their
broadcasting systems to monitoring the experiment.

The project required total silence from radio transmitters on Earth -
something that would be impossible today. But in 1924 there were few
commercial stations, and radar had not been invented. It is easy to
imagine the tension as radio operators waited, in total radio silence,
for signals. And then, suddenly, even 'ham' operators began to
register signals. This was almost incredible, for early amateur
receivers would generally pick up only exceptionally strong signals
originating close at hand.

The New York Times of 28 August 1924 reported an examination of the
developed film from Jenkins radio camera:

a fairly regular arrangement of dots and dashes along

one side at almost evenly spaced intervals are curiously

jumbled groups, each taking the form of a crudely drawn

face.

STRANGE CRIES AND VOICES

Freak signal continued to come in throughout the 1920's and 1930's
particularly on the 30,000-metre wavelength. And in the late 1930's a
new factor entered the puzzle: a wave of reports of strange aircraft -
today we would call them UFOs seen in the skies of Scandinavia and
northern Europe. During the sightings, short-wave receivers in the
'flap' area would alive with strange cries and voices. The language
used caused many a headache for philologists, because what they heard
often seemed to be a mixture of Swedish and other tongues. But, if
translated setting aside rigid rules of grammar, it often seemed to
have some kind of intelligible sequence, even if its actual meaning
remained obscure.

The dawning of the space age brought with it more strange phenomena.
On 16 May 1963, in his Mercury capsule above Hawaii, astronaut Gordon
Cooper was talking to mission control on a special frequency channel
when extraneous voices broke in. Later examined on tape, these were
found to correspond to no language known on Earth. The phenomenon was
repeated on the Apollo VIII Borman-Lovell-Anders mission on 21
December, when UFOs were seen in the lunar orbit and more voices broke
into the communications channel with mission control.

This, not unnaturally, caused some consternation back on Earth. The
frequency channel they were using is such that it is virtually
impossible for any amateur operator to intrude. Controllers were left
with a problem that they could not explain, but at the same time could
hardly ignore - the security risk was too great.

But, as far back as the 1927, two Americans, Taylor and Young, had
taken such phenomena seriously enough to try and locate the source of
the radio signals They had identified an echo-periodicity of 0.01
seconds originating from a distance of between 1800 and 6250 miles
(2900 and 10,000 kilometres), and were comparing their observations
with those of Marconi. By December 1928, a number of scientist were
interested Jurgen Hals of Philips's Eindhoven laboratories in Holland
had discussed his findings with Professor Carl Stormer of Oslo,
mentioning three-second delays he had experienced with an experimental
radio transmitter. After another year, on 28 October 1929, Dr van der
Pol, also of Philips, confirmed that he had noted further odd echoes
from a planned emission of impulses at the same time every morning. It
was van der Pol's analysis of the delay between emissions and the
receipt of their echoes, always on the same wavelength, that
effectively excluded ideas that they may have been bouncing off the
moon or the inner Van Allen belt, or that they might have been somehow
stored and reflected from layers of ionized gas.

A Scottish science writer, Duncan Lunan, studied the records of these
anomalous radio echoes over a period of some years, and eventually
came up with the assertion that they originated from an alien space
probe. He also commented on the misfortune that the signals 'happened
to be received at a time when they would as a matter of course be
attributed (by a majority of people) to some natural phenomenon.'

Working on the assumption that the signals constituted some
intelligible message, Lunan proceeded to try to crack what he
envisaged as a coded pattern. His report, published in the April 1973
issue of Spaceflight, is extremely complex and has to be read in the
original to be appreciated. But what it boils down to is a graphical
diagram of the constellations of the northern hemisphere - a picture
that contains one startling incongruity: the binary star epsilon
Bootis is wrongly aligned. Using astronomical measuring techniques,
Lunan has deduced that the binary star appears in his diagram as it
would have been 13,000 years ago - a hint that this was the time when
the probe first reached our solar system. Unfortunately for Mr. Lunan,
there are a number of serious objections that can be raised to his
theory. First and most serious as Robert Sheaffer has pointed out in
his book The UFO verdict - Lunan's map does not correctly represent
the echoes published by van der Pol, as Lunan claims. And, even
allowing for alterations in the positions of epsilon Bootis that Lunan
claims, the map is only a very crude approximation to the actual
positions of the stars in the Bootis region. As Sheaffer says, 'one
would not think it too difficult for advanced, space-faring
civilization to make its interstellar probes capable of transmitting
its star maps correctly.'

But perhaps the most damming indictment of Lunan's theorizing is his
own reaction to criticism. If the map does not depict the stars of the
constellation Bootis, then perhaps, he argues, it is the constellation
Cetus - an extraordinary claim, given that Lunan once believed that
the map showed the epsilon Bootis solar system down to the smallest
moon, and that epsilon Bootis is a double sun whereas tau'Ceti is
single, something that one would expect to be apparent from so
detailed a man.

But Mr John Stonely of the London Enquirer, at least, has taken
Lunan's claims seriously enough to calculate mathematical odds, of
10,000 to 1, against delayed echoes producing such a diagram merely by
chance. Of the nature of the probe, Stonely writes that it must be
some kind of incomparably advanced computer. 'As soon as the existence
of the probe is definitely established, we should interrogate it...it
might lead to the release of information from its certainly immense
store of data.

COSMIC BLAST

Writer John A. Keel has made an intensive study of strange signals and
explicable broadcast. One intriguing example took place in 1960:
scientist Otto Struve and Frank Drake had just aligned the dish
antenna at Green Banks, west Virginia, USA, on epsilon Eridani and
tau'Ceti when their recording needles were blasted off the dials by a
signal of 8 pulses per second. The frequency was 1420.4 megahertz (the
frequency of the radio waves emitted by hydrogen in interstellar
space), and it continued coming in for five minutes. The Naval
Research Laboratory later reported that it had recorded similar
anomalies during the preceding months, but test showed that they were
definitely not of cosmic origin: they seemed to come from an
unidentified and unimaginably powerful terrestrial transmitter close
at hand. Signals of unknown origin (SUOs) have been with us since
1899, and may have been around for many years before we had the
apparatus to detect them. The range of signals is puzzling wide: dot-
dot-dot-dash codes and radio echoes to vocal transmissions and
vibrational loudspeaker effects - it is difficult to conceive that
these diverse phenomena could have a common source. But perhaps we are
confusing the issue by thinking of the mysterious signals in terms of
simple electromagnetic transmissions. Perhaps, in our quest for extra-
terrestrial beings, wee could be not so much trying to identify the
wrong sources as confining ourselves to the wrong methodology.

A few years after Cleve Backster's startling discovery, in the late
1960s, that plants give out signals when attached to a polygraph lie
detector, Mr L.G. Lawrence of the Ecola Institute in San Bernardino,
California, USA, was testing newly developed apparatus that
incorporated what he called an organic transformer. Its purpose was to
transform into sound waves the electrical oscillations of the
polygraph. In 1971 Lawrence was working in the Mojave Desert,
experimenting with cacti. He had prepared his instruments and was
about to wire up the electrodes to the planets when, to his
consternation, they began to record signals - signals that could not
possibly be electromagnetic in origin, for the apparatus was
completely shielded from all known electromagnetic sources by a
Faraday cage. Lawrence noted that the instruments were aligned with
the Great Bear - and the only possible explanation he could think of
was that the signals were some totally unknown form of energy
emanating from that constellation.

No matter how often Lawrence rechecked for faults, failures and
misalignment, the inflow of data from Ursa Major remained constant and
continuous - seemingly intelligent signals in a rhythm that ruled out
the mere chance.

Further experiments are proceeding under controlled conditions, but a
huge challenge remains: are we, as a race, sufficiently advanced
enough to grasp the opportunity of a cosmic connection in a completely
new medium - before it, like radio, becomes too clogged by our own
exploitation of it?

Shall we, unlike Tesla and Marconi, be able in time to answer a
strange world's greeting to us?

On Sep 16, 5:34 pm, Barry Warmkessel <yarida...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Marconi, in mid December 1901, made his first successful attempt at intercontinental radio transmissions between Europe and America. His first transmission was an encoded S and V letter transmitted by a crude form of HF using ionospheric bounce techniques. Amazingly, his transmission was reacquired once again in August 1924 (22.6 years later), but with some unusual data added. These signals were examined at the Naval Observatory which recorded the detected signals on photographic film (Robert Jackson; U. F. O. s; Quintet Publishing Limited, 6 Blundell Street, London N7 9BH;1992; pg. 71). The data was displayed in a falling raster format with the raster rate locked to the encoded letter. When the film was developed, the additional data formed the image of a crude face.
>
> Imagine the following scenario. Marconi's signal was intercepted on the Moon. The Moon is only a hundred times more distant than Marconi's primitive receivers. These signals were relayed to 61 Cygni, 11.2 light years distant. Did the Denaerde aliens copy the transmission, modify it and relay it back to the Moon where it was rebroadcast to the Earth? Was this the signal analyzed at the Observatory 22.4 years later? Did this incident mark the United States Navy's first recognition of an extra-terrestrial civilization?
> The gov. did not want to be directly involved in looking for extra-terrestrial aliens in those days.  So foundations were sought and  private fund  of binocular telescopes called astrographs was started.  This research started to pay dividends around the time of WW II and several binary star systems were discovered to have planets.  The USSR confirmed and expanded this research on these star systems.  But the doppler technique did not confirm these findings and I am not too sure of what to think about this new technique.
>
> TABLE 1

> Astro-Metric Prediction And Detection Of Planets Orbiting Some Nearby Multiple Star SystemsStar SystemDetected Planet/Small StarOrbit/PeriodAlpha CentauriProxima Centauri (ignited)13,000 AU/-Danjo Predicts Proxima12,620 AU PredictedUV CetiSmall planets possible3.0 AU/16 years2.6 AU PredictedGrb 34Planets predicted, none found to date61 CygniLargest Planet orbiting The A Star2.4 AU/4.9 years2.4 AU PredictedLargest Planet orbiting The B Star2.8 AU/7.0 years2.1-2.4 AU PredictedSigma 2398Planets predicted, none found to dateKruger 601 possible, large errors4.1 AU/16 years4.5 AU Predicted26 Draconis26 Draconis C (ignited)10,000 AU/-Danjo Predicts 26 Drac. C9270 AU Predicted

>
> Some other research has shown that some of these stars are associated with UFO aliens.
> Note the involvement of SETI with this research and remember that Jill Tarter, head of SETI, wrote her Ph.D dissertation on brown dwarf stars.
>
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:39:52 -0700
> > Subject: First planet with two suns reported found

> > From: hinman...@hotmail.com

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[Barry Warmkessel]

"OFFICIAL RECORDS STATE that the first radio transmissions directed
specifically at the stars were dispatched from Arecibo, Puerto Rico,
in 1974."

This was answered also, not by a radio signal, but by a crop image that everyone could see.

http://www.barry.warmkessel.com/SAUCERS6.html#4

THE ALIEN CROP CIRCLE FORMATION MECHANISM