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Kepler Space Probe Update
They are too close to their star to sustain life, and yet these are very close to the size of our Earth!... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...6pLid%3D121959 -- Happy Holidays! and Warm Wishes for the New Year! Indelibly yours, Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "There is a great warrior within all of us. What wakes yours up?" |
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On Dec 21, 9:59*am, Painius wrote:
Kepler Space Probe Update They are too close to their star to sustain life, and yet these are very close to the size of our Earth!... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...pler-exoplanet... -- Happy Holidays! * and Warm Wishes for the New Year! Indelibly yours, Paine @http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "There is a great warrior within all of us. *What wakes yours up?" It just means that most stars host planets, as though you and I didn't already suspect as much. Perhaps stars of 20+ Ms would be too vibrant and too short lived to be planet worthy, although those larger stars seem to be in the minority, whereas the vast majority of stars seem to have something less than 1 Ms and should be really good for hosting a dozen or more planets, planetoids and lots of moons. Those exoplanets of 5+ Mj could easily have numerous Earth sized moons that perhaps JWST can help detect (not that any exoplanet is going to become accessible to us or the next thousand generations unless we're talking of only those 10 ly and closer. http://translate.google.com/# Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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