"Five-Planet System Found: K2-138" Topic
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| Tango01 | 20 Jan 2018 12:34 p.m. PST |
"K2-138, also known as 2MASS J23154776-1050590 and EPIC 245950175, is a moderately bright K-type star. It is slightly smaller and cooler than our Sun and hosts at least five massive planets: K2-138b, c, d, e, and f. The alien worlds are all between the size of Earth and Neptune: planet K2-138b may potentially be rocky, but planets K2-138c, d, e, and f likely contain large amounts of ice and gas…"
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| Bowman | 20 Jan 2018 4:27 p.m. PST |
From the link: ""The credit for this planetary discovery goes mainly to the citizen scientists — about 10,000 from the around the world — who pored through publicly available data from K2, a follow-on to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope mission," the astronomers said." That's the coolest part. |
| Cacique Caribe | 20 Jan 2018 9:11 p.m. PST |
Whew. For a second I thought my planet had been discovered. Dan |
| Bowman | 21 Jan 2018 6:47 a.m. PST |
That would be K2. Yours would be C2 wouldn't it? |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 Jan 2018 1:41 p.m. PST |
Oh man, now you've gone and done it! Dan |
| Tango01 | 21 Jan 2018 3:43 p.m. PST |
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| Charlie 12 | 21 Jan 2018 9:54 p.m. PST |
""The credit for this planetary discovery goes mainly to the citizen scientists — about 10,000 from the around the world — who pored through publicly available data from K2, a follow-on to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope mission," the astronomers said."That's the coolest part. That is soooo cool. Astronomy has a long and illustrious history of such citizen scientists. |
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