Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Scientists say they have found new evidence that there is a hidden planet in our solar system. For years, some astronomers have been suggesting that unusual behaviour on the edge of our solar ...
Kepler-9d (formerly known as KOI-377.03) is a planet in orbit around the Sun-like star Kepler-9.Initially discovered by Kepler space telescope, a terrestrial planet-searching satellite built and operated by NASA, Kepler-9d is most likely a Super-Earth, with an estimated radius approximately 60% larger than that of Earth's, although its exact mass cannot be determined.
Geoffrey William Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer.He was an early influence in the field of exoplanet detection, discovery, and characterization. . Marcy was a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and an adjunct professor of physics and astronomy at San Francisco State Univers
The planet is located some 1,200 light-years away. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. It's the second-lightest exoplanet found so far based on its dimensions and mass, according to the researchers.
Kepler-9 was named for the Kepler Mission, a project headed by NASA that was designed to search for Earth-like planets. [8]In June 2010, some 43 days after Kepler came online, its operating scientists submitted a list of over 700 exoplanet candidates for review.
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the ...
The surface temperature is 10,170 K (9,897 °C; 17,846 °F), unusually hot for a star with a transiting planet. Prior to the discovery of KELT-9b, only six A-type stars were known to have planets, of which the warmest, WASP-33 , is significantly cooler at 7,430 K (7,157 °C; 12,914 °F); no B-type stars were previously known to host planets.
The Minor Planet Center, which officially catalogues all trans-Neptunian objects, lists centaurs and SDOs together. [2] (29981) 1999 TD 10 is another such object that blurs the two categories. [14] Baricentric orbital elements. aphelion (Q) = 1570 AU [15] (Heliocentric 2006 AU) semimajor =736.67 AU [11] (Heliocentric 1015 AU)