PlanetQuest
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The Kepler hardware has won some hardware of its own - big props from Popular Science and Popular Mechanics!
about 15 hours ago
from Seesmic
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For those of you anticipating Kepler announcements, looks like the first finds will be announced in January...stay tuned!
8:58 AM Nov 18th
from Seesmic
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RT @ Is there life on planets around other stars? Read a story in rhyme about a girl on a planet hunt. .
8:58 AM Nov 18th
from Seesmic
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32 Planets discovered! The count is now above 400, and who knows what Kepler's first set of results might bring...Props to the HARPS team!
4:20 PM Oct 22nd
from Seesmic
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Also - WASP-18 b, which has the distinction of being the first dying planet found - it's got 1 mil. yrs. before SMACK - right into its star.
5:18 PM Sep 18th
from twhirl
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Meanwhile, CoRoT has discovered the first confirmed terrestrial exoplanet! It's one of two super-Earth size planets that orbit the star.
5:05 PM Sep 18th
from twhirl
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Ok, I'm back, and the planet news has piled up! For starters, cross WASP-9 off the exoplanet list - looks like it's actually a binary star.
4:53 PM Sep 18th
from twhirl
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@ Transiting means that it passes directly between its star and the Earth - a pretty rare occurrence, most planets don't do that
5:40 PM Aug 27th
from twhirl
in reply to LJespersen
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Now we've got a GIANT (biggest yet) planet that orbits the wrong way! The universe is apparently full of bad drivers.
12:26 PM Aug 13th
from twhirl
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Wild week for exoplanets...first there was the planet train wreck discovered by Spitzer...
12:21 PM Aug 13th
from twhirl
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@ You just need the main Yahoo widgets program - - download it there.
12:20 PM Aug 13th
from twhirl
in reply to Adriana_Raven
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@ Transiting planets are already really difficult to find, so a multi-planet system w/ 1 trans. planet is like winning the lotto!
12:18 PM Aug 13th
from twhirl
in reply to LJespersen
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@ If you go to : , you can look up just about any planet and find its constellation, plus a bunch of other info....
12:15 PM Aug 13th
from twhirl
in reply to troopstorm
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In this case,"b" is a roasting hot Jupiter with a 3-day orbit, and "c" is a portly 15xJupiter-mass planet with a super-eccentric orbit.
5:13 PM Aug 3rd
from twhirl
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HAT-13-b and c have people pretty excited-it's the first time a multi-planet system with one transiting planet has been discovered!
5:11 PM Aug 3rd
from twhirl
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@ HD 16760 could be a brown dwarf, which is bigger than a planet, but not quite massive enough to fuse hydrogen like a star.
5:03 PM Aug 3rd
from twhirl
in reply to troopstorm
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Another new one, HD 110014b, is a little bit smaller @ 11 Jup masses, and has a pretty eccentric, egg-shaped orbit around its star.
4:52 PM Aug 3rd
from twhirl
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New planets! HD 16760 is a whopping 14-Jupiter mass planet with a year about 100 days longer than Earth's. Massive!
4:45 PM Aug 3rd
from twhirl
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Interviewed Greg Laughlin about a planet that might serve as an extra gas tank that'll reignite its star...it's the top story on PlanetQuest
10:56 AM Jul 27th
from twhirl
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@ Right on!
10:54 AM Jul 27th
from twhirl
in reply to buffalodavid
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