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Old 07-12-2015, 02:08 PM
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Exoplanets - False Positives - NASA's Kepler Observatory

‘False positives:’ More than half of NASA’s Kepler exoplanets aren’t actually planets

https://www.rt.com/usa/324815-half-k...s-not-planets/

"A five-year study of exoplanet data captured by the Kepler space observatory found that half the exoplanet candidates aren’t planets at all. They are either too small (brown dwarfs) or eclipsing binary stars (failed stars)"

I will need to update my Ipad App called Exoplanet which currently has 1,979 confirmed exoplanets in its data base.


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