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February 28, 2014

Planets, Planets Everywhere

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NASA's Kepler Mission Announces a Planet Bonanza, 715 New Worlds: These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.... This latest discovery brings the confirmed count of planets outside our solar system to nearly 1,700.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 28, 2014 11:32 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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OMFG

How they gonna name all a them?

Posted by: chasmatic at February 28, 2014 12:26 PM

... I hate to rain on everyone's parade here but they aren't confirmed, there's just a high likelihood of them being planets. They're so far away that the data is incredibly minimal, nobody can see and confirm them. What they have found are gravity anomalies consistent with planets.

I'm not saying they aren't planets, only that scientists cannot say for sure, only say that to a fair probability these are planets around distant stars.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 1, 2014 10:14 AM

Boo Chris. Since my parade's been rained on, what am I gonna do with the list of names I started, huh? You want to hear what I got so far?

OK: Ann, Albert, Alvin, um ... Amy, and uh, ... Well, anyway, the list is so long I won't hijack the thread anymore than I have already. There's a lot more.

Posted by: chasmatic at March 1, 2014 10:54 AM

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