WOT: Astronomers orbiting 440 light years away?

[desinor at sympatico.ca (Jean-Claude Désinor)]

  On the Gripping Hand, it could be one of the atronomer teams which 
took a chance in an FTL  Heechee ship ... (maybe derived from or an 
ancestor of a small car called "The Scirocco" :-)

    Jean-Claude
    84 8v

Chris Bennett wrote:
> Ok not really.
>
> But if you read the quote below...
>
> "The gas giant, estimated to be eight times the mass of Jupiter, was 
> found
> by a team of astronomers orbiting a beast of a star located about 440 
> light
> years away in the constellation Hercules."
>
> I guess it's missing a comma somewhere maybe before "orbiting".  You 
> have to
> reread it a couple of times before it makes sense.  When I first read 
> it I
> was thinking it was a science fiction spoof or something.  Or if it 
> wasn't
> at the very least the writer shoulda revealed what it was he was smoking.
>
> Full story below if any gives a crap.  I thought it was mildly humourous
> either way.
>
>
> http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/07/fatplanet_spa.html?category=space&guid=20070507093000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000 
>