Skywalker whines about being a washed up hasbeen.

May 11, 2005

Though the new “Star Wars” movie ends with Luke Skywalker as a baby, the Jedi knight grew up a long time ago. 

Since immortalizing Skywalker, actor Mark Hamill, now 53, has spent most of his time working on Broadway (”Amadeus,” “The Elephant Man,” “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks”) and doing cartoon voice-overs.

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Planets strange orbits puzzle scientists.

Of the more than 130 planets found around distant stars, a large number have highly elliptical orbits, crazy oblong shapes that have surprised theorists who try to explain the configurations with near collisions or perturbing disks of gas.
  

An elliptic orbit is characterized by the eccentricity, which is how much a planet’s distance from its star varies as it carves out a year. Most of the planets in our solar system have relatively low eccentricities, less than about 5 percent (tiny Pluto being a notable exception and considered not really a planet by some astronomers).

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