Friday 29 January 2016

Wanderer


It was reported recently that a giant planet was observed in interstellar space, that is, outside or beyond any attendant galaxy. Further, it's postulated that there are likely to be many others which, in the colossal violence of solar system formations, have been ejected either through direct collision with other early planets, or as a result of gravitational upheaval where several planets swing wildly through a system,  in much the same way that Jupiter once occupied a place nearer the sun in our own system before orbiting to the farther reaches of the Milky Way, disrupting all before it.

It's odd to think of these wanderers (the original meaning of the word, planet) without sunrise or sunset, with rotations de-synchronized if they occur at all, perhaps not unlike a leaf blown away from the tree, aimless, settling, unsettling.

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