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September 15th 11, 08:06 PM
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NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars
NASA Detects Planet Dancing With a Pair of Stars
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/sc...er=rss&emc=rss quote The official name of the new planet is Kepler 16b, but astronomers are already referring to it informally as Tatooine, after the home planet of Luke and Anakin Skywalker in the George Lucas ?Star Wars? movies, which also had two suns. end quote 
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