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Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission Finds 5 New Lightweight Worlds
Space.com ^
| 01/04/10
| Andrea Thompson
Posted on 01/04/2010 4:34:21 PM PST by KevinDavis
WASHINGTON The list of known exoplanets in the galaxy just got bigger, thanks to the first observations of NASA's Kepler space telescope, which found five new lightweight worlds orbiting distant stars.
"I would like to announce today the discovery of five exoplanets by Kepler," said Kepler science director William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., here today at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; exoplanet; science; space; xplanets
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A big find..
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:35:13 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(Can't Stop the Signal!)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:35:56 PM PST
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
To: KevinDavis
I too think it is nice, though it still baffles me how it took so long for them to figure out how many planets in our own solar system.
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:37:39 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Good news. HC bill will not cover illegal aliens. Bad news. 20-35 million will be made citizens.)
To: Redbob
And an exoplanet is?One that is outside our solar system.
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:39:56 PM PST
by
null and void
(We are now in day 348 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: KevinDavis
This post is worthless without pics! :)
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:43:26 PM PST
by
sit-rep
To: KevinDavis
I would feel confidant predicting that almost 100% of stars we can see (stable ones) have planets
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:43:46 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
To: KevinDavis
Might be a good place to send our lightweight president.
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:46:53 PM PST
by
Trod Upon
(Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
To: KevinDavis
...five new lightweight worlds...They have been named after true lightweights:
Obamus Prime, Bidenus Dimmus, Reidus Turdus, Pelosius Plasticus, and Algor Hipporectum.
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posted on
01/04/2010 4:50:16 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(R.I.P. Scotty 7/2007-11/2009.)
To: KevinDavis
please ad me to the space nuts er I mean ping list thanks S
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posted on
01/04/2010 5:00:48 PM PST
by
scottteng
(IMPEACH OBAMA I am Jim Thompson)
To: rfp1234
To: KevinDavis
Have they found evidence of the evil planet Nibiru? It’s due to make a near miss with Earth in late 2012, or so some people say.
You would think we would have seen it coming decades ago, you know?
To: KevinDavis
Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission Finds 5 New Lightweight WorldsGreat. Let obama go and be president of one of them.
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posted on
01/04/2010 5:04:29 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(if you can read this you're too close.)
To: annie laurie; garbageseeker; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Thanks KevinDavis. May have been posted, dunno, too lazy to check. :')
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posted on
01/04/2010 5:24:34 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Happy New Year!)
To: KevinDavis
“La-dies and Gentlemen ... in this cornah (of the galaxy) ... weighing in at 115 trillion trillion metric tons ....”
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posted on
01/04/2010 5:24:37 PM PST
by
mikrofon
(Mass Hysteria)
To: KevinDavis
Not really a big find. It didn't take very long for Kepler to find them. These exo planets have orbits of only a few days, which means, as the article says, they are too close to their stars and far too hot for life. It's still fascinating to know that exo planets seem to be fairly common, but we won't know of anything really interesting until Kepler finds planets with orbits of many months and/or years. That will take a while.
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posted on
01/04/2010 5:58:33 PM PST
by
LiberConservative
(Global Warming/'Climate Change": Biggest Scam in History)
To: KevinDavis
Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission Finds 5 New Lightweight WorldsDoes the headline infer that these new worlds are "overated"?
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posted on
01/04/2010 7:00:25 PM PST
by
FDNYRHEROES
(In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
To: KevinDavis
Great to know there are distant neighbors out there. Eventually we’ll find one that is blue green and white. Billions of stars out there,we are not alone, there has to be intelligent life out there. Unfortunately we won’t live to see them. Someday an interplanetary explorer will find them and have the means to get there. It may take a few hundred or a few thousand years or more but it will happen. Of course that is, if mankind can survive the arrival of the 10th Imam. s/
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posted on
01/04/2010 7:19:12 PM PST
by
Bringbackthedraft
(Don't blame me, I voted for Palin! And I will AGAIN!)
To: rfp1234
HAHAHA that’s like an insult against Optimus Prime.
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posted on
01/04/2010 9:22:38 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(If I'm going out, I'm going out like Major Kong.)
To: Ted Grant
It's not a planet, it's a planet
eater, and its name is Unicron.
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posted on
01/04/2010 9:25:04 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(If I'm going out, I'm going out like Major Kong.)
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