An artist's impression of XO-1b. A similar transiting planet was discovered by the XO Project of amateur and professional astronomers. Image: Rice University
1 posted on
06/02/2007 8:34:30 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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2 posted on
06/02/2007 8:34:47 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
and is so close to its star that it completes an orbit in just 3.2 days I am to presume they mean earth days?
3 posted on
06/02/2007 8:36:24 PM PDT by
JennysCool
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To: SunkenCiv
It's not easy being a brown dwarf.
But it has its moments.
To: SunkenCiv
This planet probably truly has a global warming issue.
7 posted on
06/03/2007 4:04:56 AM PDT by
SamAdams76
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To: SunkenCiv
... considers any object larger than 13 times the size of Jupiter, which does not fuse hydrogen, to be a brown dwarf. So, if XO-3b is classified as a planet instead, I guess they have some form of rationale to arrive at 13, as opposed to 12 or 14, but such thing always have a ring of arbitrariness to me.
9 posted on
06/03/2007 7:57:19 AM PDT by
LantzALot
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10 posted on
06/03/2007 9:36:15 AM PDT by
KevinDavis
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