Posted on 03/22/2010 5:34:27 PM PDT by KevinDavis
A newly discovered exoplanet is the first such alien world to resemble the planets in our own solar system, researchers announced Wednesday.
The planet, dubbed CoRoT-9b, was found to be about the size of Jupiter and situated at an orbit similar to Mercury, which is the innermost planet in our solar system.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Washington, DC, has been known for decades. And it doesn’t really resemble our world.
Not my fault.
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Gas giant in a near solar orbit?
Watch, soon some director will make a flick about how mankind will rape this planet and its orange inhabitants for the rare element: CoRoT-cake....
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hahahaha, That was what I was thinking. Mitt Romneys future home? At least now we know the name so we can mail him.
There seems to be so little life out there...
Funny
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