Some more facts that the conventional theory on stars and planets and their formation out of a disk of dust (which originates in speculations of german philosopher Kant und french mathematician Laplace in the 18th century) must get corrected
These are at least 15 (not counted the duplicate cases!) severe contradictions to the 'disk of dust' or 'swirling nebula' theory.
To be continued...
But lets come to the main point: according to conventional theory stars are Deuterium burners which generate energy from nuclear reactions. According to conventional theory (now no more accesible to the broad public, see instead here) this discriminates them from planets. So this theory needs a fixed point of mass where stars begin (so called "brown dwarfs") and where planets end. Lets see this "definition of a planet":
"A ``planet'' is an object that has a mass between that of Pluto and the Deuterium-burning threshold* and that forms in** orbit around an object that can generate energy by nuclear reactions. "
* Deuterium Burning Limit: Objects less massive than 13 Jupiter masses never burn Deuterium nor generate significant energy from any nuclear reactions. Fortuitously, this Deuterium-burning limit at 13 Mjup resides near the upper-end of the observed planet mass distribution. Thus 13 Jupiter masses constitutes an arbitrary but doubley motivated limit.
Corollary #1: Observations may enhance but not authenticate planet status.
Corollary #2: Sharp parameter boundaries for the domain of "planets" can be neither physically nor empirically justified at this time. Objects which have masses and formation histories near the perimeter of the adopted parameter domain constitute part of a natural continuum.
** this is a typo in the original text. I don't dare to correct it, else someone says I manipulated a citation..
This is a statistical mass distribution of the planets found so far(not quite up to date, the found 'planets' keep getting bigger and bigger): (citet from exoplanets.org)

A more detailed survey of the planets found so far you find below (Better here or here or here, actually at the moment there are 358 , this site 413(jan 2010) planets found so far). The first thing you will notice immediatedly that in this list there are at least 4 "planets" which shouldn't be in the list: HD162020 (14.4 Mjup), HD202206(17.5Mjup), HD137510(25.63 Mjup), HD168443c(17.2Mjup) and nearly 10 which should according to earlier definitions of a star (around 10 Mjup) not be in that list. Expresis verbis, which are according to the above definition Stars, not Planets(which according to the rules shouldn't orbit stars and should shine).
Newer exoplanet lists list depending on the site 17 planets above 10 Mjup, 34 above 10 Mjup(dec 2009) with biggest planet having at least 25 Mjup and 16 above 15Mjup! (since I already know that there will be many who don't find them and tell I give false figures: they are on different lists, according to the method how they were found), 31 above 10 Mjup (dec 2009) with 3 above 20 Mjup (watch out, their sorting algorithm has a bug), 32 above 10Mjup(dec 2009) and 14 above 15 Mjup and 4 above 20 Mjup. Remember the IAU definition above: 'Fortuitously, this Deuterium-burning limit at 13 Mjup resides near the upper-end of the observed planet mass distribution. Thus 13 Jupiter masses constitutes an arbitrary but doubley motivated limit. '
It is obvious that the new 2008 IAU definition of a planet carefully omits any delimination towards stars. But this means nothing else than - considered the massive planets found - now the definition of stars is at disposal. Actual literature on the subject rather complete here (last edited dec. 28 2009)
But lets have a closer look at how this data is gained. Nearly all of the planets detected so far are detected by Doppler survey ,ie by spectroscopic analysis of the light emitted by the wobbling central star (see here ). But with this method you can only tell that the accompanying planet can not be smaller than a certain value. How much mass the planet really has, no one knows. It can have 10, 100, 1000 times the mass that you get by calculating the mass out of the spectroscopic displacement.
Lets view this more exactly. Nearly all of the stars investigated so far are that far away that even with the best telescopes today you cannot see the planets directly nor the wobbling of the central star. So the displacement of known spectral lines is taken as calculation basis for the extend of wobbling of the central star due to an orbiting planet. But this whole calculation gives only true figures if our view to the star is absolutely in the rotation plane of the orbiting planet - which will seldom be the case, if ever. If we don't look straight into the rotation plane, we get false figures, the mass of the planet will be in reality much higher. This is easy to understand. Up to 45 degrees, the error is not that big:

Inclination of 45 degree of the orbit of the planet. (error 1.42 or sqt of 2).

Inclination of the orbit 87 degrees: error = 19.1, the planet has nearly 20 times more mass than calculated. But since you got in reality 3 axis of freedom the error will be even greater! (For the physics or mathematical layman: they multiply. And for instance 20*20 gives a 400 times greater mass.) The more you approach in only one direction a 90 degree orbit, the mass of the planet goes to 100 times the mass, to 1000 times, it can even nearly go to infinty! Statistically there is absolutely no predominant direction to assume. Now if you apply these consequences (conservatively!) to the list below it turns out that according to the above given definition a great deal of these Planets are Stars !!! (And not 'brown dwarfs' which according to todays definition end at 80Mjup) If you take newer lists from the net even more. Stars which obviously don't burn Deuterium - despite they should. Stars which orbit Stars! (Actually they are no stars, because there is no difference betwen Stars and Planets)
Masses and Orbital Characteristics of All Known Extrasolar Planets
Compiled by California and Carnegie Planet Search
http://exoplanets.org/planet_table.shtml
ICRS 2000.0 coordinates*
M sin i Per a K Mstar -------------+----------
(Mjup) (d) (AU) e (m/s) (suns) R.A. | Dec
-----------------------------------------------------------------+----------
0 hd73256 1.85 2.548 0.037 0.04 267.0 1.05 | 8 36 23.0 | -30 02 15
1 hd83443 0.41 2.985 0.04 0.05 58.0 0.79 | 9 37 11.8 | -43 16 19
2 hd46375 0.25 3.024 0.04 0.04 34.5 1.00 | 6 33 12.6 | 5 27 47
3 hd179949 0.98 3.093 0.04 0.00 118.0 1.24 | 19 15 33.2 | -24 10 45
4 hd187123 0.51 3.097 0.04 0.02 68.0 1.06 | 19 46 58.1 | 34 25 10
5 tauboo 4.13 3.312 0.05 0.01 471.4 1.30 | 13 47 16.0 | 17 27 24
6 bd-103166 0.48 3.488 0.05 0.07 59.9 1.10 | 10 58 28.8 | -10 46 13
7 hd75289 0.44 3.509 0.05 0.01 53.5 1.15 | 8 47 41.0 | -41 44 14
8 hd209458 0.67 3.525 0.05 0.11 86.5 1.05 | 22 3 10.8 | 18 53 4
9 hd76700 0.19 3.971 0.05 0.13 25.0 1.00 | 8 53 55.0 | -66 48 4
10 51peg 0.46 4.231 0.05 0.01 55.0 1.06 | 22 57 27.9 | 20 46 7
11 upsandb 0.69 4.617 0.059 0.01 70.2 1.30 | 1 36 48.0 | 41 24 23
12 hd49674 0.11 4.950 0.06 0.17 13.1 1.00 | 6 51 30.5 | 40 52 5
13 hd68988 1.92 6.276 0.07 0.15 189.7 1.20 | 8 18 22.0 | 61 27 38
14 hd168746 0.23 6.403 0.065 0.08 27.0 0.92 | 18 21 49.8 | -11 55 21
15 hd217107 1.30 7.126 0.07 0.14 140.2 0.98 | 22 58 15.5 | -2 23 43
16 hd162020 14.4 8.428 0.074 0.28 813.0 0.70 | 17 50 38.4 | -40 19 6
17 hd130322 1.02 10.720 0.088 0.04 115.0 0.89 | 14 47 32.8 | -0 16 52
18 hd108147 0.40 10.890 0.104 0.40 27.3 1.20 | 12 25 46.0 | -64 1 22
19 hd38529b 0.78 14.310 0.129 0.28 54.7 1.39 | 5 46 35.0 | 1 10 7
20 55cncb 0.84 14.653 0.115 0.02 72.2 1.03 | 8 52 36.1 | 28 19 53
21 gj86 4.01 15.766 0.11 0.04 375.9 0.86 | 2 10 25.6 | -50 49 28
22 hd195019 3.57 18.203 0.14 0.02 271.4 1.02 | 20 28 18.6 | 18 46 10
23 hd6434 0.48 22.090 0.15 0.30 37.0 0.99 | 1 4 40.2 | -39 29 18.0
24 hd192263 0.75 24.330 0.15 0.03 50.5 0.79 | 20 13 59.9 | 0 52 3
25 gj876c 0.56 30.120 0.13 0.27 81.0 0.32 | 22 53 16.7 | -14 15 49
26 rhocrb 1.04 39.845 0.22 0.04 64.2 0.95 | 16 1 2.8 | 33 18 19
27 55cncc 0.21 44.280 0.24 0.34 13.0 1.03 | 8 52 36.1 | 28 19 53
28 hd74156b 1.61 51.522 0.28 0.65 112.0 1.05 | 8 42 25.1 | 4 34 43
29 hd168443b 7.73 58.100 0.295 0.53 472.7 1.01 | 18 20 4.0 | -9 35 46
30 gj876b 1.89 61.020 0.21 0.10 210.0 0.32 | 22 53 16.7 | -14 15 49
31 hd3651 0.20 62.230 0.284 0.63 15.9 0.79 | 0 39 11.8 | 21 15 1
32 hd121504 0.89 64.600 0.32 0.13 45.0 1.02 | 13 57 17.2 | -56 2 24
33 hd178911 6.46 71.500 0.326 0.14 343.0 0.90 | 19 9 3.1 | 34 35 59
34 hd16141 0.23 75.560 0.35 0.21 11.2 1.00 | 2 35 19.9 | -3 33 38
35 hd114762 11.03 83.895 0.35 0.34 616.7 0.82 | 13 12 20.1 | 17 31 2
36 hd80606 3.90 111.810 0.469 0.93 411.0 0.90 | 9 22 37.5 | 50 36 13
37 70vir 7.44 116.689 0.48 0.40 315.2 1.10 | 13 28 26.0 | 13 46 49
38 hd216770 0.70 118.000 0.46 0.32 33.0 0.90 | 22 55 53.7 | -26 39 32
39 hd52265 1.00 119.100 0.49 0.19 38.8 1.13 | 7 0 18.0 | -5 22 1
40 hd1237 3.45 133.800 0.505 0.51 164.0 0.96 | 0 16 12.7 | -79 51 4
41 hd37124b 0.72 153.000 0.54 0.10 28.8 0.91 | 5 37 2.5 | 20 43 50
42 hd73526 2.98 184.108 0.65 0.44 114.8 1.02 | 8 37 17.0 | -41 19 10
43 hd104985 6.3 198.200 0.78 0.03 0.0 1.50 | 12 5 15.1 | 76 54 21
44 hd82943c 0.88 221.600 0.728 0.54 34.0 1.05 | 9 34 50.7 | -12 7 45
45 hd8574 2.04 228.180 0.77 0.31 64.0 1.10 | 1 25 12.4 | 28 34 2
46 hd169830 2.94 229.900 0.82 0.35 83.0 1.40 | 18 27 49.5 | -29 49 1
47 upsandc 1.89 241.500 0.829 0.28 53.9 1.30 | 1 36 48.0 | 41 24 23
48 hd202206 17.5 256.003 0.83 0.43 564.8 0.90 | 21 14 57.8 | -20 47 21
49 hd89744 7.99 256.605 0.89 0.67 275.3 1.40 | 10 22 10.7 | 41 13 48
50 hd134987 1.55 258.499 0.81 0.25 49.3 1.05 | 15 13 28.6 | -25 18 34
51 hd12661b 2.3 263.000 0.82 0.33 75.0 1.07 | 2 4 34.4 | 25 24 53
52 hd150706 1.0 264.900 0.82 0.38 33.0 0.98 | 16 31 18.0 | 79 47 23
53 hd40979 3.32 267.200 0.811 0.23 108.0 1.08 | 6 4 29.9 | 44 15 39
54 hd17051 1.94 311.288 0.91 0.24 58.8 1.03 | 2 42 33.2 | -50 48 3
55 hd92788 3.31 327.393 0.95 0.33 98.6 1.07 | 10 42 48.5 | -2 10 59
56 hd142 1.07 331.872 0.97 0.37 31.6 1.10 | 0 6 19.0 | -49 4 30
57 hd28185 5.7 383.000 1.03 0.07 161.0 0.99 | 4 26 26.3 | -10 33 3
58 hd142415 1.73 388.000 1.07 0.50 52.0 1.03 | 15 57 40.8 | -60 12 1
59 hd108874 1.78 397.428 1.06 0.14 49.6 1.01 | 12 30 26.8 | 22 52 48
60 hd4203 1.65 400.944 1.09 0.46 49.3 1.06 | 0 44 41.1 | 20 26 57
61 hd177830 1.52 408.377 1.14 0.10 37.7 1.17 | 19 5 20.8 | 25 55 15
62 hd128311 2.58 420.514 1.02 0.30 84.9 0.80 | 14 36 0.4 | 9 44 50
63 hd27442 1.28 423.841 1.18 0.07 30.7 1.20 | 4 16 28.9 | -59 18 7
64 hd210277 1.30 434.289 1.12 0.46 39.5 0.99 | 22 9 29.9 | -7 32 55
65 hd82943b 1.63 444.600 1.16 0.41 46.0 1.05 | 9 34 50.7 | -12 7 45
66 hd19994 2.0 454.0 1.3 0.2 45.0 1.35 | 3 12 46.4 | -1 11 46
67 hd20367 1.17 469.500 1.25 0.32 29.0 1.12 | 3 17 40.0 | 31 7 37
68 hd114783 1.05 494.665 1.19 0.09 28.5 0.92 | 13 12 43.9 | -2 15 54
69 hip75458 8.47 510.833 1.28 0.72 299.4 1.05 | 15 24 55.7 | 58 57 58
70 hd147513 1.0 540.400 1.26 0.52 31.0 0.92 | 16 24 1.0 | -39 11 35
71 hd222582 5.11 572.000 1.35 0.76 191.3 1.00 | 23 41 51.5 | -5 59 9
72 hd65216 1.33 578.000 1.31 0.29 37.0 0.92 | 7 53 41.3 | -63 38 50
73 hd141937 9.7 653.220 1.52 0.41 234.5 1.00 | 15 52 17.5 | -18 26 10
74 hd41004A 2.3 655.000 1.31 0.39 74.0 0.70 | 5 59 49.6 | -48 14 23
75 hd160691 1.87 664.192 1.87 0.26 42.8 1.08 | 17 44 8.0 | -51 50 3
76 hd23079 2.61 738.459 1.65 0.10 55.3 1.10 | 3 39 43.0 | -52 54 57
77 16cygb 1.69 798.938 1.67 0.67 51.2 1.01 | 19 41 52.1 | 50 31 5
78 hd4208 0.80 812.197 1.67 0.05 18.2 0.93 | 0 44 26.6 | -26 30 57
79 hd114386 0.99 872.000 1.62 0.28 27.0 0.75 | 13 10 40.0 | -35 3 17
80 hd213240 4.5 951.000 2.03 0.45 91.0 1.22 | 22 31 0.0 | -49 26 0
81 hd10697 6.12 1077.906 2.13 0.11 114.2 1.10 | 1 44 55.8 | 20 4 58
82 47umab 2.54 1089.000 2.09 0.06 49.3 1.03 | 10 59 28.2 | 40 25 48
83 hd190228 3.53 1121.000 2.0 0.50 90.0 1.20 | 20 3 0.8 | 28 18 25
84 hd114729 0.82 1131.478 2.08 0.31 17.6 0.93 | 13 12 44.3 | -31 52 24
85 hd111232 7.8 1138.000 2.07 0.25 168.0 0.78 | 12 48 51.8 | -68 25 31
86 hd2039 4.85 1192.582 2.19 0.68 127.8 0.98 | 0 24 20.0 | -56 39 0
87 hd136118 12.08 1208.724 2.40 0.36 212.9 1.24 | 15 18 55.5 | -1 35 33
88 hd50554 3.92 1249.590 2.32 0.50 81.9 1.06 | 6 54 42.9 | 24 14 45
89 upsandd 3.75 1284.000 2.53 0.27 61.1 1.30 | 1 36 48.0 | 41 24 23
90 hd196050 2.73 1316.236 2.43 0.21 48.5 1.10 | 20 37 52.0 | -60 38 3
91 hd216437 1.98 1331.703 2.43 0.36 37.5 1.07 | 22 54 39.4 | -70 4 25
92 hd216435 1.49 1442.919 2.7 0.34 24.5 1.25 | 22 53 37.9 | -48 35 53
93 hd169830c 2.33 1487.000 2.75 0.00 36.0 1.40 | 18 27 49.5 | -29 49 1
94 hd106252 6.81 1503.610 2.54 0.57 150.4 0.96 | 12 13 29.5 | 10 2 32
95 hd12661c 1.5 1530.000 2.6 0.20 27.0 1.07 | 2 4 34.4 | 25 24 53
96 hd23596 8.1 1548.000 2.86 0.30 126.0 1.29 | 3 48 0.0 | 40 31 50
97 hd37124c 1.3 1595.000 2.5 0.69 32.4 0.91 | 5 37 2.5 | 20 43 50
98 hd168443c 17.2 1770.000 2.87 0.20 289.0 1.01 | 18 20 4.0 | -9 35 46
99 hd145675 4.89 1773.079 2.85 0.38 88.8 1.00 | 16 10 24.3 | 43 49 4
100 hd39091 10.35 2063.818 3.29 0.62 196.9 1.10 | 5 37 9.0 | -80 28 9
101 hd38529c 12.8 2207.400 3.71 0.33 169.1 1.39 | 5 46 35.0 | 1 10 7
102 hd70642 2.0 2231.000 3.3 0.10 32.0 1.00 | 8 21 28.1 | -39 42 19
103 hd33636 9.28 2447.292 3.56 0.53 164.5 0.99 | 5 11 46.0 | 4 24 13
104 47umac 0.76 2594.000 3.73 0.10 11.1 1.03 | 10 59 28.2 | 40 25 48
105 hd190360 1.15 2613.000 3.65 0.00 17.5 0.90 | 20 3 37.0 | 29 53 49
106 hd74156c 8.21 2650.000 3.82 0.35 125.0 1.05 | 8 42 25.1 | 4 34 43
107 hr1084 0.92 2675.000 3.40 0.28 13.7 0.75 | 3 32 56.4 | -9 27 30
108 hd30177 9.17 2819.654 3.86 0.30 142.2 0.95 | 4 41 54.0 | -58 1 15
109 hd72659 3.0 3537.154 4.5 0.26 42.3 0.95 | 8 34 3.0 | -1 34 7
110 55cncd 4.05 5360.000 5.9 0.16 49.3 1.03 | 8 52 36.1 | 28 19 53
What M sin i Mjup does mean? see the pictures above under calculation of mass.
When discovering planets only a minimum mass can be given. If the plane of the
orbit of the planet is tilted, this mass gets devided by sin(degree of tilt).
See above calculation of mass.
At last:
Formation of our solar system out of a 'disk of dust' or 'swirling nebula':
Stars as fusion reactors /Deuterium burners:
This is a typical example how astrophysics works today. The theory of stars has as an essential prerequisite that the whole star is in thermodynamic equilibrium: temperature and movement inside the star are in equilibrium with radiation. But this is obviously not the case: at first a star looses energy (else it wouldn't be a star). At second at the surface of a star the radiation field is totally asymetric - a severe contradiction, at third there is no process imaginable nor plausible which could magically ensure this thermodynamic equilibrum and so on and on....
Neutrino problem part I. Neutrino problem part II (actually 3 problems): The neutrino problem solved: Neutrinos with multiple personality.
Big Bang
If measurements show that 51% percent of stars move away from us and 49% of stars move towards us, one cannot build out of this a theory named "Big Bang". Especialy if there are other researchers who have found contradictous numbers...No wonder if our central star wobbles (and all stars wobble as you can read on these pages!). This whole "Big Bang" shows only that our solar system and the universe is till today not understood! In 2009 /2010!
Perhaps I should explain to non-informed readers (and to some phycisists it seems), that these measurements were made with the exact same method as today the planet findings are made: with spectroscopic displacement measurements ! And this just at the same time I wrote my letter to the physics departements (btw such measurements were already used in 19th century and beginning of the 20th century: in 1912 americain Astronomer Vesto Slipher found a red-shift in certain nebula. The starting point of the BIGBANG.)! This just to the assertion, that you can read by now in scientific1, semi-scientific publications2 and popular magazines3 (look in the net, you find thousands...) that before 1990 the measurement techniques were not that evolved to find planets ! As excusion why before my letters no planets were found !!! Already Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) did describe the solar spectrum in 1814!!! So theoretically, since this time these maesurements could have been made!! And practically they were made correctly in 1890 and in 1912 as you can read above as the beginning of the Big Bang. And instead of acknowledging that this whole BigBang-Theory was based on mis-measurements (because they measured without knowing what they did do the wobbling of our central star and of other stars because of havy planets!) there are even today scientists and scientific internet sites which tell about complicated measurement techniques to find the missing energy.
The energy is not missing, nor is it dark, because the whole Bigbang was one single error!!
Big congresses were held till 2005 and even later on the BigBang and the missing energy(or dark energy, how it was called later), here in television or popular magazines you hear even in 2009 every other day some findings about the dark energy, in 2002 (BR-Alpha-Centauri, you find it till today in the net) there was a whole feature about dark energy, you could hear about mysterious dark energy, very, very complicated matter, only comprehensible for the brightest guys.... So it seems there are till today enough Astronomers and Astrophycists out there which haven't understood that the whole BigBang ( ...and with it all the other strange hypothesis that are connected to this ) were simple mis-measurements!
Obviously it is till today not understood what it means that the planets make the stars wobble!!!
Finally, since it seems necessary that I describe even this in full detail: any attempt to find with spectroscopic displacement methods planetary systems like ours - with large planets on multi 10-year orbits will fail if astronomers don't learn to take into account the course of our sun around the barycenter of the system jupiter/saturn-sun. This was the second error which led to the false "BigBang" hypothesis and it seems is also till today not understood by astronomers. Every approx. 6 years (1/2 Jupiter orbit time) you get an overlayd "false" shift figure over all your data. 6 years a seemingly red shift, 6 years a seemingly blue shift etc. This means before astronomers haven't learned to subtract these false shifts, they again get completely false figures! (So the actual data on exoplanets should also be taken with a grain of salt.) What simply prooves that without theory you always get false results!
And very last: From day to day more exoplanet findings prove that everything written on these pages is rather correct. But this in turn means that most mass numbers given today for the exoplanets by astronomers are rather fictitious! This is the simple explanation why NASA thinks they have found a planet made of styrofoam (Kepler-7b).
Its not hard to predict that we will see soon many planets made of styrofoam and even lighter than styrofoam. Perhaps than anybody starts to think over all these wrong theories and hypothesis!
Copyright © R.Cooper-Bitsch 2006,2009
2.) "Only in the mid 1990's were instruments developed that were sensitive enough to record the telltale signs that indicate the presence of a planet orbiting a star." Exactly 100 years wrong! See here. And more exactly 105 years.
3.)"Advances in spectrometer technology and observational techniques in the 1980s and 1990s produced instruments capable of detecting the first of many new extrasolar planets. 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet to be detected, was discovered in October 1995 using Doppler spectroscopy."