Volcanic plume?

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It's the formula for calculating the maximum height a convecting eruption column can reach.

You're up, George.

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That's pretty neat. What is the k coefficent for Earth?

Don't avoid this void? Tell me where it is.

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I'm afraid I don't know.

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Wrong, that is not the void I am asking about. [No problem, I probably will never need it.]

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Does it lie in the constellation of Eridanus?

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Not Eridanus.

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That was far too easy I suppose. Is the void located outside of our solar system?

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Yep. It's outside our solar system.

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I should mention that "void" is my description only. The term they use is "structure". Further, the void is not completely empty. What is inside, however, has never been seen before.

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Hint: the object inside the "void" is a forming object.

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Hint: The forming object is related to 8 already formed objects here in our system, though more closely with one of these.

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You'd appear to be refering to a void in an circumstellar disk caused by a growing planet sweeping up nearby material.

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Yep. Where is that sucker?

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Is the "void" located in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere?

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Nope. [Hint: it's in the other hemisphere. ]

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Is is it located within the swath of sky represented by the first 12 hours of right ascension? (BTW, is this in the 20 Questions format?)

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Yep, it is in the first 12 hr of RA.

I had not planned on the 20 question format, since it shouldn't go that long. I felt we were due for a quicker pace, especially with hints. Such as...

[Hint: The void-like discovery was earlier this year, I am fairly certain.]

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The abrupt end of the Kuiper belt at 50 AU?

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Nope.

So far, you know that it is a void in a circumstellar disk where a planet is forming. This recent image appears to be the first ever of such an event.

As to its constellation, astronomers orgainze constellations with a system that would put this one in the first 12.

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