An artist's concept of the Neptune-sized planet GJ436b (right) orbiting the M-class dwarf star Gliese 436 at a distance of 3 million miles.
Posted on 05/29/2007 11:57:52 AM PDT by bedolido
HONOLULU — Astronomers have discovered 28 new planets outside of our solar system, increasing to 236 the number of known exoplanets, revealing that planets can exist around a broad spectrum of stellar types, from tiny, dim stars to giants.
An artist's concept of the Neptune-sized planet GJ436b (right) orbiting the M-class dwarf star Gliese 436 at a distance of 3 million miles.
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There are another 100 that are possible, but the results have not been verified by the head honcho of the exoplanet authority.
Time to move to the burbs?
Cool. Now you can have those planets just give us back Pluto!!!
Cool, thanks.
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I am going to start naming the planets. I don’t care if anyone else adopts the name. Something like the planet Godzilla sounds better than GJ436b (that sounds like an expensive part for a Grundig World Band radio). “You see, sir, the GJ436b in your multiband radio is on the fritz and we’ll have to order a replacement from Stuttgart. It’ll cost you $90 plus labour.”
One idea — just assign the names based on the series of (known) first names in a large phone directory. :’)
I plan to name the exoplanets after actors and characters from B-grade sci-fi movies. Out there is a planet with John Agar’s name on it.
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