- Mega Earth Kepler-10C Discovery - Why Are Our Solar System's Planets So Different?
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... like Earth and Mars and then large gas giants like Neptune and Jupiter. Though a middle ground between those two is missing ...
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- MH370 - Why Search Teams Ignored Georesonance
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MH370 - Why Search Teams Ignored Georesonance As soon as I read about the claims that Georesonance identified an aircraft wreck at the bottom of the Bay of Bengal my bogusness meter went off the scale. A whois search shows the company is ...
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- Mysteries Of 55 Cancri Solved
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... a mass higher than Earth's but substantially below that of Neptune, which has a mass 17 times greater than Earth. Penn State Professor ...
Article - News Staff - May 9 2014 - 12:30am - 0 attachments
- Dwarf Planet 2012 VP113 Hints At A Huge Unknown Mystery Planet In The Solar System?
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... frozen objects of the Kuiper belt, which lie just beyond Neptune's orbit. Beyond this, there appears to be an edge to the Solar System ... of the four giant planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are shown by purple solid circles. The Kuiper Belt, including Pluto, ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2014 - 4:40pm - 0 attachments
- Cosmic Collision Creates Mini-Saturn 2 Billion Kilometers Away
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... of thousands of dwarf planets and comets in orbit beyond Neptune on the edge of our solar system, but at some point it must have been ...
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- Asteroid Chariklo Has A Ring System Like Saturn
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... rings. The rings of Uranus, and the ring arcs around Neptune, were found in a similar way during occultations in 1977 and 1984. ...
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- Is Theologian Alving Plantinga For Real? Alas, It Appears So
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I keep hearing that Notre Dame philosopher and theologian Alvin Plantinga is a really smart guy, capable of powerfully subtle arguments about theism and Christianity. But every time I look, I am dismayed by what I see. If this is the best that theology ca ...
Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 10 2014 - 6:31am - 0 attachments
- Beta Pictoris: Icy Debris Suggests 'Shepherd' Planet
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... or nearly three times the distance between the planet Neptune and our sun. The total amount of CO observed exceeds 200 million ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 4:40pm - 0 attachments
- HD 142527 In Lupus The Wolf May Change How We Think About Planet Formation
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... 5 times larger than the distance between the Sun and the Neptune. This is the first firm evidence of planet formation found so far from ... and planets that have a very large orbit far beyond the Neptune's orbit. While such a diverse range of extrasolar planets have been ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2014 - 4:25pm - 0 attachments
- GJ 1214b: Astronomers Characterize Atmosphere Of Exoplanet Super-Earth For The First Time
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... its mass is intermediate between those of Earth and Neptune. Super-Earths like GJ 1214b are among the most common type of planets ... GJ 1214b and another, larger exoplanet next to Earth and Neptune. Credit: NASA&ESA, STScI-PRC14-06b More precise Hubble ...
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