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To: Red Badger

Is the system called TRAPPIST because the seven planets are all silent, like Trappist monks?


15 posted on 03/09/2022 9:22:26 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

It’s an acronym.............

Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) telescope at La Silla Observatory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAPPIST-1


16 posted on 03/09/2022 9:25:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Is the system called TRAPPIST because the seven planets are all silent, like Trappist monks?

Every ten years, the monks in the monastery are allowed to break their vow of silence to speak two words.

Ten years go by and it’s one monk’s first chance.

He thinks for a second before saying, “Food bad.”

Ten years later, he says, “Bed hard.”

It’s the big day, a decade later. He gives the head monk a long stare and says, “I quit.”

“I’m not surprised,” the head monk says.

“You’ve been complaining ever since you got here.”

17 posted on 03/09/2022 9:34:46 AM PST by null and void (Just because I speak English does not make me a Subject of the English Crown)
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