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Old 02-12-2011, 06:51 AM
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Blazing hot planet discovered

Blazing hot planet discovered zooming around Kepler 21
http://theconversation.edu.au/blazin...-its-star-4551
http://kepler.nasa.gov/news/nasakepl...ews&NewsID=163

" A team of 65 astronomers and mutiple telescopes led by Steve Howell, Deputy Project Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center 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. "
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