Nemesis - zrcalno oko Sun?eva sustava
Nemesis: The Million Dollar Question
Star Systems Hint at Possibility of Sun's Nemesis
tri ?lanka o možebitnom postojanju Sun?eve zvijezde-suputnice Nemesis, koja bi bila odgovorna za izumiranje živih bi?a na Zemlji svakih otprilike 26 milijuna godina.
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Nemesis
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"Gaia is one of Asimov's best attempts at exploring the possibility of a collective awareness, and is compounded further in Nemesis, in which the planet Erythro composed primarily of prokaryotic life has a mind of its own and seeks communion with human beings."
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Nemesis (1989)
The novel is set in an era in which interstellar travel is in the process of being discovered and perfected. The demands of the plot required Asimov to hypothesize a planetary system about a star named Nemesis. At the time of the writing, this name was given to a theoretical companion to Earth's sun which could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions. The red dwarf star in the book turns out not to be this companion; it is simply passing through the solar system.
Interestingly, the planetary system in the book included a Jovian planet in a very short-period orbit about its primary star. This was a radical idea in 1989, but was vindicated with the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star (that orbiting 51 Pegasi) in 1995.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
Nemesis (1989)
The novel is set in an era in which interstellar travel is in the process of being discovered and perfected. The demands of the plot required Asimov to hypothesize a planetary system about a star named Nemesis. At the time of the writing, this name was given to a theoretical companion to Earth's sun which could provide a mechanism for periodic disturbances of comets in the Oort cloud, which would then fall inwards causing mass extinctions. The red dwarf star in the book turns out not to be this companion; it is simply passing through the solar system.
Interestingly, the planetary system in the book included a Jovian planet in a very short-period orbit about its primary star. This was a radical idea in 1989, but was vindicated with the discovery of the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star (that orbiting 51 Pegasi) in 1995.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28Asimov%29"
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