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Towards Other Earths: 32 New Exoplanets Found
Science Daily ^ | 10/19/2009 | staff

Posted on 10/19/2009 11:08:33 AM PDT by xcamel

Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre telescope, reports on the incredible discovery of some 32 new exoplanets, cementing HARPS's position as the world’s foremost exoplanet hunter. This result also increases the number of known low-mass planets by an impressive 30%. Over the past five years HARPS has spotted more than 75 of the roughly 400 or so exoplanets now known.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; exoplanets; science; space; xplanets
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1 posted on 10/19/2009 11:08:33 AM PDT by xcamel
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It’s a good thing they are too far for us to get to. I’m sure we’d go and screw those up too.

On the otherhand, if there was a way to get to them, we could round up all the AlGorites and send them to their own planet to manage as they see fit.


2 posted on 10/19/2009 11:11:22 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: Tenacious 1

I’m waiting for the creationists to claim they simply “poofed” into existence when we looked in that direction...


3 posted on 10/19/2009 11:14:55 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: xcamel

I can’t be part of this thread. My apparent unique belief gets me stoned and pillared from both sides.


4 posted on 10/19/2009 11:20:40 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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To: xcamel

No no no, God put them there to tempt out faith.

or something


5 posted on 10/19/2009 11:21:22 AM PDT by BJClinton (Any "healthcare reform" without tort reform is a fraud.)
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To: xcamel
32 New Exoplanets Found
Women, Minorities Hardest Hit

6 posted on 10/19/2009 11:22:24 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: Tenacious 1

No one here would pick on you one bit for finding a way to transport the envirowackos to the nearest one...


7 posted on 10/19/2009 11:24:35 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: B-Chan


Amazon Women Of The Lost Planet
8 posted on 10/19/2009 11:25:23 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: xcamel

They may as well be a trillion miles away. Oh, wait, they are.


9 posted on 10/19/2009 11:31:38 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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To: xcamel

At least ONE is bound to have a Stargate....
...Just ask the Air Force.... ;)


10 posted on 10/19/2009 11:43:32 AM PDT by Levante
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To: Scythian
"What is it, Vananka?"

"It looks like a male, but it's wearing a bright red spandex bodysuit."

"Get it out of here. What does it think this place is, San Francisco?"

11 posted on 10/19/2009 11:46:51 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Levante

12 posted on 10/19/2009 11:49:59 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Tenacious 1
We name one "Mecca", drop every mother's son of them down on it, and in a hundred years, there will be only one Imam left alive at the bottom of the gravity well. And he'll kill himself for somehow failing Allah.

Seriously, it worked wih KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN!

13 posted on 10/19/2009 11:50:13 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: xcamel

LOL! I loved that cartoon! With Porky and Marvin the Martian!


14 posted on 10/19/2009 11:55:09 AM PDT by Levante
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15 posted on 10/19/2009 12:07:57 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: 50sDad

“I am Kirok! I have come! I am Kirok!”


16 posted on 10/19/2009 12:10:54 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: Tenacious 1

i didn’t expect a kind of spanish inquisition...:)


17 posted on 10/19/2009 12:14:33 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: xcamel

1. What are they looking for?

2. Why?


18 posted on 10/19/2009 12:17:46 PM PDT by RoadTest ( But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do)
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1) Planets.

2) Because they can.


19 posted on 10/19/2009 1:12:16 PM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Tenacious 1
I’m sure we’d go and screw those up too.

*roll*

Don't tell me you're one of the "humans have screwed up the planet" enviro true believers. FReepers should be smarter than that!

20 posted on 10/19/2009 1:18:17 PM PDT by TChris (There is no freedom without the possibility of failure.)
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