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From 0 to 5,000 Planets in 20 Years

by bentaber on 10/29/15, 1:48 AM with 7 comments

• by antognini on 10/29/15, 3:19 AM

  It used to be that the discovery of an exoplanet, any exoplanet was big enough news to warrant its own discovery paper. But these days we know of so many planets that putting out an individual paper describing a newly discovered hot Jupiter is a little ho-hum. There has to be something unique about the planet to justify its own paper, otherwise it'll just be lumped in a big data dump paper.

• by adaml_623 on 10/29/15, 10:39 AM

  From 0 (+9) to 5,000 (+8) Planets in 20 Years FTFY

• by TheSpiceIsLife on 10/29/15, 8:21 AM

  super-Earths: rocky worlds that are up to 10 times as massive as our own, and potentially habitable

  Wouldn't the gravity on such a planet be 10 times as strong as Earth's? Is it feasible that life could exist on the surface, or only in an ocean?