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To: treetopsandroofs; fso301; SunkenCiv; All

If they are talking about diameter, rather than volume or mass, then they would be 10B times the sun’s diameter which is about 870,000 miles across, which is about 109 times the diameter of the earth.

In another astronomical finding, here is information on the discovery of a planet, Kepler 22b, in the “life zone” of liquid water about 600 light years away.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/kepler-22b-new-planet-discovered-habitable-zone_n_1129591.html?ncid=webmail13


57 posted on 12/06/2011 9:24:11 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

And Huffpo still sucks.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2816324/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2817036/posts


58 posted on 12/06/2011 11:30:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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