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To: LibWhacker

Does “a period of 40 days” mean that it orbits the star in only 40 days?

And wouldn’t that make it very close to the star?

And by “warm” Neptune, they mean boiling?


2 posted on 08/29/2016 7:27:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

All true. But the signal only comes from the general direction of the warm Neptune planet, the only planet they know about in that system. The signal might actually be coming from another planet that’s in orbit around the star.


3 posted on 08/29/2016 7:39:04 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: BenLurkin

To get a notion of ‘warm neptune,’ google ‘hot jupiter.’


21 posted on 08/29/2016 10:43:44 AM PDT by sparklite2 (The trouble is, you think you have time.)
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