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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Wed Jun 20, 2012, 04:42 PM Jun 2012

xkcd toon:Exoplanets

mouseover text:"Planets are turning out to be so common that to show all the planets in our galaxy, this chart would have to be nested in itself--with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart--at least three levels deep."

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xkcd toon:Exoplanets (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2012 OP

Thx! daaron Jun 2012 #1

These are definitely exciting times. drm604 Jun 2012 #2

I don't see a number...am I colorblind? laconicsax Jun 2012 #3

The screwed up on the sizes of the exoplanets more massive than Jupiter. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #4

daaron

(763 posts)

1. Thx!

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Wed Jun 20, 2012, 05:25 PM

Jun 2012

I xkcd!

drm604

(16,230 posts)

2. These are definitely exciting times.

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Wed Jun 20, 2012, 05:59 PM

Jun 2012

The next Mars rover, Curiosity, is landing this August.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview

laconicsax

(14,860 posts)

3. I don't see a number...am I colorblind?

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Wed Jun 20, 2012, 09:14 PM

Jun 2012

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)

4. The screwed up on the sizes of the exoplanets more massive than Jupiter.

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Wed Jun 20, 2012, 09:23 PM

Jun 2012

Mega-Jovian planets and brown dwarfs do not get bigger as they get more massive, they stay the size of Jupiter and get more dense.

The smallest red dwarfs are the same size as Jupiter, but they are a lot denser.

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