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Aside from a scattering of planets that today don't really make the news, it's been pretty uneventful until now. However a second planet has been found in the Gliese 667 C system. The planet is about four times the mass of Earth and receives 90% of the insolation from its star that Earth...
Recovery of the outer three planets at HR 8799 with old (1998) HST data, providing a much improved observational baseline with which to calculate their orbits.
Press release.
Three planets (two Neptunes in a mean motion resonance and a super-Earth further in) transiting Kepler-18.
http://www.europlanet-eu.org/outreach/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=354&Itemid=41
http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/kepler18b/
arXiv paper.
Re: Tech curently in devlopment that will allow us to visitp
There are no propulsion engine technologies that can get people to Pluto in a reasonable amount of time for any reasonable definition of reasonable, at least reasonably far into the future.
This planet was detected using a different method (direct imagery), rather than the wobble method. Using the wobble method would probably take millennia for this planet.
Correct.
It should be noted that Kepler-16 b is not the first circumbinary planet found. PSR B1620-26 b holds that title. Eclipsing binaries found to host planets since then include DP Leonis, HW Virginis (two planet candidates), NN Serpens (two planet candidates), HU Aquarii (two planet candidates), and...
~50 New planets. 16 are super-Earths.
http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso1134/eso1134b.pdf
Looks like the planets at 82 Eri and HD 85512 are reported here as well.
Yes.
Manually. You can open any .ssc and .stc file and see that definitions for stars and planets are pretty straightforward. It doesn't take much effort to write one up and craft planets and stars all over the Universe. :)
Additional Kepler results.
For the first time, a non-transiting planet has been discovered through transit timing variations, at Kepler-19.
Press release.
EPE Stats.
Discovery Paper.
"The Kepler-19 System: A Transiting 2.2 R_⊕ Planet and a Second Planet Detected via Transit Timing...
A remarkable new planetary system from Kepler, KOI-730 (pending Kepler-# designation).
Four sub-Jovian planets in a chain of resonances about their host star. Much as how Jupiter's three inner Galilean moons have a 1:2:4 resonance (for every orbit of Ganymede, Callisto conducts two, Io...
Re: Moon landing conspiracy theories disproven once and for
It's been disproven once and for all 40 yr ago.
Only those with no concept of reality cling to the fantasy that the whole world staged it. They're the same people who cry "faked! fotoshopped!" at every evidence you present them, but...
Partly motivated by this thread, I got back into the game and am a lot better at it now.
Does all of the LoR regulars use a single server? This wasn't particularly clear to me from what I read in this thread.