Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Super Earths Might Be Common





Nearly all the extrasolar planets discovered have been Jupiter-sized or larger. But astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics think that super-earths - rocky planets several times larger that our planet - might actually be much more common. Based on the recent discovery of a super-earth around a red dwarf star 9,000 light-years away, the research team calculated that there are probably 3 times as many of these planets than the larger gas giants.

2 comments:

Mac said...

akin to invoking the Black Arts

And no doubt, to some Fundies, it's precisely that.

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