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Tango01 | 28 Apr 2017 10:13 p.m. PST |
… Found Orbiting Nearby Red Dwarf. ""This is the most exciting exoplanet I've seen in the past decade," said Dr. Jason Dittmann, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and lead author of the Nature paper. The newfound world, named LHS 1140b, is about 1.43 times larger than the Earth. It has a diameter of 11,322 miles (18,221 km), compared to the Earth's diameter of 7,918 miles (12,742 km). The planet is about 6.6 times as massive as the Earth and is probably made of rock with a dense iron core…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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