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To: KevinDavis

How would you determine the composition of a planet orbitting another star from here?


19 posted on 03/14/2006 7:27:26 PM PST by tomzz
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You are asking the wrong person, cause, I never studied astronomy nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express...


21 posted on 03/14/2006 7:32:04 PM PST by KevinDavis (http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
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To: tomzz
How would you determine the composition of a planet orbitting another star from here?

A lot of scientific guesswork?
22 posted on 03/14/2006 7:45:28 PM PST by adorno
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My guess would be spectral analysis ... the same way they determine what everything else in the universe is made of.


23 posted on 03/14/2006 7:56:44 PM PST by manwiththehands (Islam is as Islam does.)
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