Wednesday, December 21, 2011

NASA finds 2 New Planets


WOW! This is amazing stuff! NASA found 2 new planets! The planets are called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f. They are Earth size, but they are too close to their star to have water. Here's more info on this big discovery.
The discovery marks the next important milestone in the ultimate search for planets like Earth. The new planets are thought to be rocky. Kepler-20e is slightly smaller than Venus, measuring 0.87 times the radius of Earth. Kepler-20f is a bit larger than Earth, measuring 1.03 times its radius. Both planets reside in a five-planet system called Kepler-20, approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.

Kepler-20e orbits its parent star every 6.1 days and Kepler-20f every 19.6 days. These short orbital periods mean very hot, inhospitable worlds. Kepler-20f, at 800 degrees Fahrenheit, is similar to an average day on the planet Mercury. The surface temperature of Kepler-20e, at more than 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit, would melt glass.
Again... WOW!

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3 comments:

Daij said...

Can we ship all the Republicans there?

Anonymous said...

We'll ship them there with just enough fuel to lift off.

Daij said...

LOL

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