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SWBTATTReg

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6. There has been such planets found...

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 11:32 AM

Mar 2022

Rocky planet found outside Solar System | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/news050613-2
Jun 13, 2005 · Astronomers have already found more than 150 extrasolar planets, also known as exoplanets. But all of them are larger than Uranus, which has 15 times Earth's mass. The recent find is so small that...

Author: Mark Peplow
Publish Year: 2005

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There are more than 5,000 confirmed planets beyond our solar system, NASA says [View all] Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 OP

They probably all have intelligent peaceful life too. Throck Mar 2022 #1

Are any of them accepting Republicans? I'll put in my 2 bucks for blastoff /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #2

Send 'em to the hot ones Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 #3

I don't believe Earth-sized rocky planets PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2022 #4

There has been such planets found... SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #6

Actually, I just found this: PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2022 #7

Neat! And thanks for the website. I've added to my Table of Contents...nt SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #8

I don't understand the obsession with finding earth-like planets beyond our solar system, SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #5

I think it was Neil de Grasse Tyson Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 #9

He also said... Duppers Mar 2022 #10