glenc
02-12-2011, 06:51 AM
Blazing hot planet discovered zooming around Kepler 21
http://theconversation.edu.au/blazing-hot-planet-discovered-zooming-around-its-star-4551
http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?fuseaction=ShowNews&NewsID=163
" A team of 65 astronomers and mutiple telescopes led by Steve Howell, Deputy Project Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html) and a member of the Kepler Science Team, pinpointed the planet which takes a mere 2.8 days to orbit its star, Kepler-21. The planet, dubbed Keplar-21b, has a radius of 1.6 times that of Earth’s and a mass estimated at up to 10 times greater. "
" The team calculates that the temperature at the surface of the planet is about 1900 K, or 2960 F. "
http://theconversation.edu.au/blazing-hot-planet-discovered-zooming-around-its-star-4551
http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakeplernews/index.cfm?fuseaction=ShowNews&NewsID=163
" A team of 65 astronomers and mutiple telescopes led by Steve Howell, Deputy Project Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/home/index.html) and a member of the Kepler Science Team, pinpointed the planet which takes a mere 2.8 days to orbit its star, Kepler-21. The planet, dubbed Keplar-21b, has a radius of 1.6 times that of Earth’s and a mass estimated at up to 10 times greater. "
" The team calculates that the temperature at the surface of the planet is about 1900 K, or 2960 F. "