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Title: NASA's Deep Space Camera Locates Host of 'Earths'
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URL Source: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010 ... s-host-earths/?test=latestnews
Published: Jul 25, 2010
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Post Date: 2010-07-25 22:15:30 by gengis gandhi
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NASA's Deep Space Camera Locates Host of 'Earths' Published July 25, 2010 | NewsCore Print Email Share Comments (189) Text Size Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets - - including up to 140 similar in size to Earth -- in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory. Early results from NASA’s Kepler Mission, a small satellite observing deep space, suggested planets like Earth were far more common than previously thought. Past discoveries suggested most planets outside our solar system were gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn -- but the new evidence tipped the balance in favor of solid worlds. Astronomers said the discovery meant the chances of eventually finding truly Earth-like planets capable of sustaining life rose sharply. NASA so far formally announced only five new exoplanets -- those outside our solar system -- from the mission because its scientists were still analyzing Kepler’s finds to confirm they are actually planets. “The figures suggest our galaxy, the Milky Way [which has more than 100 billion stars] will contain 100 million habitable planets, and soon we will be identifying the first of them,” said Dimitar Sasselov, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and a scientist on the Kepler Mission. "There is a lot more work we need to do with this, but the statistical result is loud and clear, and it is that planets like our own Earth are out there."
Poster Comment: I know this will be a huge shock to all the slow kids. 100million habitable planets......lol. and you think there might only be one or two of those crazy aliens the nutters are talking about out there, right? you may now run to your local preacher/witch doctor and console yourself with juvenile khristian rock songs/wing of bat, etc.
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#1. To: short bus shufflers, christine, lodwick, flintlock, original_intent, former lurker, wudidiz, highlaireon (#0)
zeep.
__________________________________ you may now run to your local preacher/witch doctor and console yourself with juvenile khristian rock songs/wing of bat, etc. Praise Hey-Sus!
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
Just in the Milky Way Galaxy........lol That's not even counting all the crazy aliens in all the other 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the universe that each have 100 million or so habitable planets.
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the thing i can't understand, is where are all the weak minded punks, bitches and low rent tools like ricky j, fuckeroo, et al? i mean, they've never been out of their county but they've got the whole universe figured out from the edge of their bar stool/church pew (same thing)..... seems like they would be here telling everyone how nasa is wrong, too.
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#2. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
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100million habitable planets......lol.
#3. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
100million habitable planets......lol.
#4. To: flintlock (#3)
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#5. To: gengis gandhi (#1)
short bus shufflers
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