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Palomar

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=14885]Oh god...the suspense is already killing me

*NASA is cruel!

--Cindy

P.S.:  I wonder if it's related to http://www.newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3300]THIS "little item" in any way.

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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Euler

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Their discovery represents a significant and much-anticipated advance in the hunt for extra-solar planets.

*NASA is cruel!

Very true.

P.S.:  I wonder if it's related to THIS "little item" in any way.

It seems unlikely.  Mu Area's third planet was discovered by European Southern Obsevatory, so why would NASA have a press conference on it?  I am not sure what else it could be though.

Cobra Commander

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Tuesday afternoon. Looks like I might have to make some unauthorized modifications to my workstation so I can hear it.   

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Commodore

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

One "M-class" planet coming up?

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Cobra Commander

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

One "M-class" planet coming up?

Wouldn't that be something! Probably not though.

Have to be a big one, anyway.

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SpaceNut

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Well, since we are able to see a 14 x Earth with a very small telescope maybe we have finally found a way by which to link telescopes to finally actually see them that are much larger.

One can only hope to see another blue marble around an alien sun...

Commodore

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

One "M-class" planet coming up?

Wouldn't that be something! Probably not though.

Have to be a big one, anyway.

Well, what else could be described as "a significant and much-anticipated advance in the hunt for extra-solar planets."?

Perhaps its something relatively close, so its easier to see.

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"Yes, I was going to give this astronaut selection my best shot, I was determined when the NASA proctologist looked up my ass, he would see pipes so dazzling he would ask the nurse to get his sunglasses."
---Shuttle Astronaut Mike Mullane

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Hope it's worth waiting for.

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C M Edwards

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Ok.  Watch NASA.

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Palomar

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040901.html]Abridged version

*If you don't want to read a long internet article, here's the discovery in a nutshell. 

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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SpaceNut

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

While I am not sure which thread this really belongs in, I can not help my wondering eyes. Are these planets, that are visible inside the gas cloud of the Stingray Nebula.

Hubble Sees the Stingray Nebula
http://www.universetoday.com/am....?792004

Palomar

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

While I am not sure which thread this really belongs in, I can not help my wondering eyes. Are these planets, that are visible inside the gas cloud of the Stingray Nebula.

Hubble Sees the Stingray Nebula
http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish … ...?792004

*The same image was posted yesterday, in the "New Discoveries *3* thread," here in the Science & Technology folder.

No reference to planets within the nebula has been made by scientists. 

The star that went supernova and produced the nebula is visible in the pic (near the center).  What appears to be another star is visible near it:  Perhaps it is a bright star in the background which appears to be within the nebula *or* it could be a knot of glowing gas.

But there is no reference to planets made by scientists, pertaining to this photo.

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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SpaceNut

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Photo may be first of extrasolar planet
A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/1 … index.html

SpaceNut

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

The race is now on to prove that the first planet has truely been identified. Conclusive proof of first direct image remains elusive. The claim comes just months after the sighting of another planet-like object, made using the Hubble.

Rival teams race to snap alien planet
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040913/ … 913-1.html

SpaceNut

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Is this more of the same previously announced or is this a different one.

STATUS REPORT
Date Released: Sunday, September 05, 2004
Jupiter-sized Planet Found Transiting a Bright K0V Star

http://www.jupitertoday.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=13872

Palomar

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

*Hmmm...I know how this might sound...but the analogy keeps coming to mind with each similar report...

To date it seems "Super Jupiters" are a norm of sorts.  One S-J type planet orbiting a star. 

Reminds me of cats:  The products of conception for a 1st-time mother cat will either result in giving birth to one big kitten (which usually dies) or a healthy litter.

:-\  Okay...just had to say it...

--Cindy

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We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

SpaceNut

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Re: Major Extrasolar Planet Discovery - ...to be announced August 31!

Space telescopes rock... :band:

Astronomers Confident: Planet Beyond Solar System Has Been Photographed

First search in stellar graveyard yields two possible planets

Hubble’s infrared eyes home in on suspected extrasolar planet