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Jan 10, 2010: Super Earth
| US astronomers have detected the second-smallest exoplanet ever discovered with a mass just four times heavier than the Earth, adding to a growing number of low-mass planets dubbed "super-earths". |
So all you disgruntled people, like Spuck, have a place to go.
| The exoplanet, a name given to planets outside our solar system, has been dubbed HD156668b, and is located around 80 light years from Earth in the direction of the Hercules constellation. A light year is roughly 9460 billion kilometres. The planet orbits around its parent star in just over four days. |
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squirell nutkin Sunday Jan 10 11:46 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
US astronomers have detected the second-smallest exoplanet ever discovered
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:p
Bullitt Monday Jan 11 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin
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Scriveyn Monday Jan 11 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin
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Scriveyn Monday Jan 11 04:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Bullitt
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Gravdigr Monday Jan 11 04:53 AM
That picture looks like Walt Disney's phlegm.
SPUCK Monday Jan 11 05:06 AM
I will not be moving to some damn place called HD156668b!
How the hell am I supposed to pronounce that?!
"Yeah Mom, I'm moving to HD156668b."
"Yes it's called HDonehundredfiftysixthousandsixhundredsixtyeight b."
"That's right Mom, b! "
"No!! That's not the street address!!"
There aren't that many Home Depots either.
When they find a place with a better name - then I'll go!
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There are now over 400 exoplanets known.
xoxoxoBruce Monday Jan 11 10:53 AM
newtimer Monday Jan 11 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
So all you disgruntled people, like Spuck, have a place to go.
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Adak Monday Jan 11 11:41 AM
I really like their excitement - "We discovered an exoplanet!".
Great, except it has no water, the temperature never gets below 1,200ºC, the atmosphere has no oxygen in it, and - oh yeah - it would take us hundreds of years to get there.
Aside from these and dozens of other little details, it's JUST PERFECT!! :p :p :p
squirell nutkin Monday Jan 11 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Adak
I really like their excitement - "We discovered an exoplanet!".
Great, except it has no water, the temperature never gets below 1,200ºC, the atmosphere has no oxygen in it, and - oh yeah - it would take us hundreds of years to get there. Aside from these and dozens of other little details, it's JUST PERFECT!! :p :p :p |
Where everything multiplies at an amazing rate
We're out here in the universe buying real estate
Hope we haven't gotten here too late
[chorus:]
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
You have nothing at all to fear
I think we're gonna like it here
We're looking for a planet with atmosphere
Where the air is fresh and the water clear
With lots of sun like you have here
Three or four hundred days a year
[chorus]
Bought Manhatten for a string of beads
Brought along some gadgets for you to see
Heres a crazy little thing we call TV
Do you have electricity?
[chorus]
I know we may seem pretty strange to you
But we got know-how and a golden rule
We're here to see manifest destiny through
Ain't nothing we can't get used to
We're humans from earth
We're humans from earth
Gravdigr Tuesday Jan 12 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
So all you disgruntled people, like Spuck, have a place to go.
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spudcon Tuesday Jan 12 11:13 AM
I'm not sorry about your gruntle.
Pete Zicato Tuesday Jan 12 12:02 PM
♪ ♫ I've got plenty of gruntle. And gruntle's plenty for me.... ♫ ♪
xoxoxoBruce Tuesday Jan 12 08:15 PM
Yeah, he's got plenty of gruntle, and enough sense of humor to know I was goofing with him.
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