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Offline sam

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Six New Planets: Mini-Neptunes Found Around Sunlike Star
« on: February 03, 2011, 04:29 »
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NASA's Kepler space telescope has uncovered six new planets huddled around a sunlike star—odd worlds that astronomers have dubbed mini-Neptunes, scientists announced Wednesday.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/02/110202-nasa-kepler-new-planets-found-mini-neptunes-space-science-nature/
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Re: Six New Planets: Mini-Neptunes Found Around Sunlike Star
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2011, 12:10 »
Excellent graphics Sam.  It just goes to show how prolific planets are. 
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