One of the things that has bothered me about exoplanets (planets around other "stars") was the orbital periods. When you look at the data, these planets are flying around these giant suns at very high velocities; most having periods of just a few days--hundreds of times faster than our own solar system.
Then it hit me about that comment that Katirai made concerning the "stars" being planets... my own research (published in the daniel papers) indicates that there is historical evidence of the outer planets of our own solar system have gone nova in the past, leaving behind moons and planetary rings, post-explosion. This behavior is analogous to a supernova, but on a smaller scale, with the same effects (supernova generate rings and debris fields). They behave very much like the "stars" we see in the sky.
Then it hit me--what if these "stars with planetary systems" are actually "planets with moons?" So I "did the math," as they say, and took a look at our own solar system, namely Jupiter, since the four, large moons are visible with binoculars on a clear night (well, back when we actually had chemtrail-free skies).
Jupiter's moons have these rotational periods:
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Io: 1.77 days
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Europa: 3.55 days
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Ganymede: 7.15 days
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Callisto: 16.7 days
Then I grabbed an exoplanetary system, Kepler 101 was the first in the table I pulled up:
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101 b: 3.49 days
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101 c: 6.03 days
Curious, almost an exact match to 2 of Jupiter's moon periods, Europa = 101b, Ganymede = 101c. I'll bet when they find 101a, it will have a period around that of Io, 1.7 days or so.
But wait... it gets better. What about Kepler's Law, relating orbital velocity and distance? Let's try that out, too, but remembering that we're looking at the system through the "fisheye lens" of the gravitational limit and it is being magnified. So we need to scale down a bit, first. Based on using Jupiter as a reference in our own solar system, our sun is 9.95x larger than Jupiter, so if Kepler-101 is actually a Jupiter-sized planet, the values will be approximately 10x too large.
Orbital radius, semi-major axis:
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101 b: 0.045 au / 10 = 0.0045 au
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101 c: 0.0648 au / 10 = 0.00648 au.
Now, see how they compare to Europa and Ganymede:
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Europa: 671034km = 0.0045 au
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Ganymede: 1070412km = 0.00716 au
Scaling down the sizes from a star to a Jupiter-size planet gives a nearly
exact correspondence between Kepler-101/Jupiter, and 101b/Europa and 101c/Ganymede.
Now, what makes more sense... planets orbiting at Warp 4 around a giant sun, or moons orbiting a gas giant planet at the everyday, orbital velocities and distances that we see in our own solar system?
Seems these exoplanets are actually
exomoons, with exactly the same orbital relationships we find in our own solar system.
"My God - It's full of stars!"
"My God - It's full of planets!"