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Old 05-09-2010, 12:00 PM
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Can they just stop finding new exoplanets for a minute!

Arghhhh!

Last night I was updating a couple of presentations I have done talking about the discovery of exoplanets, the number found, how many Jupiter size etc. I checked my source of all things exoplanetary:

http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/atlas/atlas_index.cfm

Updated my slides, graphs etc. Then imported these slides over similar ones in a couple of other talks...simple, easy peasy! I needed to check one number for a particular talk so I went back to the site....and my numbers were wrong! They had added another 7 planets while I was updating my slides.

This morning I had another look....ARGHHHHH! They have done it again, my slides said "479 in total", the number is now 490!

Can they just stop for a minute while everyone catches up!

At this rate, they will crack 500 by lunch time tomorrow!
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