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Super-Sized Rocky Planet Found
Discovery.com ^
| 03/14/06
| Irene Klotz
Posted on 03/14/2006 6:39:47 PM PST by KevinDavis
March 14, 2006 A team of astronomers has discovered a large, ice-rock planet that dominates a distant solar system, much like Jupiter reigns in our bit of Milky Way real estate.
Taking into account other discoveries of extrasolar planets, the finding of an Earth-class planet leads scientists to theorize that the type of planetary system that develops around a star depends on the size of the star.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dhrawn; earth; earth2; exoplanets; space; xplanets
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To: tomzz; All
You are asking the wrong person, cause, I never studied astronomy nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express...
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03/14/2006 7:32:04 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: tomzz
How would you determine the composition of a planet orbitting another star from here?
A lot of scientific guesswork?
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posted on
03/14/2006 7:45:28 PM PST
by
adorno
To: tomzz
My guess would be spectral analysis ... the same way they determine what everything else in the universe is made of.
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
03/14/2006 8:59:47 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(A DUmmie troll's motto: "Non cogito, ergo zot")
To: KevinDavis
Oh. THAT kind of Rocky.
I have been lost ever since he
and Bullwinkle went off the air.
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posted on
03/14/2006 9:02:54 PM PST
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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03/14/2006 11:45:59 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Yes indeed, Civ updated his profile and links pages again, on Monday, March 6, 2006.)
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