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Kepler Spacecraft Finds System With Multiple Planets Transiting the Star

Posted by timothy on from the they've-probably-found-us-too dept.

rhaas writes "NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star. They found two planets almost the size of Saturn, and possibly a third, small, very hot planet with a radius about 1.5 times that of Earth."

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  1. Go on, rub it in why don't you? by Hognoxious · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine how Pluto feels. You rotten, cruel bastards. Go on, rub it in why don't you?

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    1. Re:Go on, rub it in why don't you? by Eudial · · Score: 4, Funny

      Stop anthropomorphizing the Trans-Neptunian objects.

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  3. Re:Exoplanets vs. inter-stellar travel by InfiniteZero · · Score: 4, Funny

    when our ancestors are poking around other solar systems

    I think you are confusing space travel with time travel.

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