A Trio of Super-Earths

A Trio of Super-Earths

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Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS instrument at the ESO La Silla Observatory, they have found a triple system of super-Earths around the star HD 40307. Moreover, looking at their entire sample studied with HARPS, the astronomers count a total of 45 candidate planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses and an orbital period shorter than 50 days.

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[edit on 16/6/2008 by Mirthful Me]

quite intresting stuff i hope they find a planet full of naked girls

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[edit on 16/6/2008 by Mirthful Me]

you should instead hope that they don't use harps any longer

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and whys that then modern

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