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First Planet Under Three Suns Is Discovered
An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter and, given that it has to contend with the gravitational pull of three bodies, promises to seriously challenge our current understanding of how planets are formed.
www.physorg.com/news5158.html
An extrasolar planet under three suns has been discovered in the constellation Cygnus by a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology using the 10-meter Keck I telescope in Hawaii. The planet is slightly larger than Jupiter and, given that it has to contend with the gravitational pull of three bodies, promises to seriously challenge our current understanding of how planets are formed.
www.physorg.com/news5158.html
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Re: First Planet Under Three Suns Is Discovered
Fri, July 15, 2005 - 10:28 AMI got this in email from JPL, and was fairly stoked. It makes me wanna read that excellent book called, "Nightfall" by Asimov again. Anyone else read that? -
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Re: First Planet Under Three Suns Is Discovered
Sun, August 21, 2005 - 2:36 PMThat's right, I forgot about Nightfall. As for multiple stars making a system complicated, keep in mind that one star will usually be significantly more massive than the others and act as the center of a system probably very much like our own. After all, it wouldn't take much more mass for Jupiter to start the fusion process.
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