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Transiting circumbinary planets Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b : Nature : Nature Publishin... - 0 views

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  • Received 15 November 2011 Accepted 05 December 2011 Published online 11 January 2012
  • Questions remained, however, about the prevalence of circumbinary planets and their range of orbital and physical properties
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News | SDSU | Discovery Creates New Class of Planetary Systems - 0 views

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  • Using data from NASA’s Kepler Mission
  • astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting “circumbinary” planet systems — planets that orbit two stars.
  • two new planets, named Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b, are both gaseous Saturn-size planets
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  • Kepler-34 b orbits its two sun-like stars every 289 days, and the stars themselves orbit and eclipse each other every 28 days.
  • eclipses allow a very precise determination of the stars
  • Kepler-35 b revolves about a pair of smaller stars (80 and 89 percent of the sun’s mass) every 131 days, and the stars orbit and eclipse one another every 21 days
  • Kepler-34 at 4,900 light-years from Earth
  • Kepler-35 at 5,400 light-years
  • among the most distant planets discovered.
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NASA - NASA Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems - 0 views

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scibyte29 NASA circumbinary exoplanet multimedia

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  • An artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planetary system
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Tatooine the Sequel: Kepler Finds Two More Exoplanets Orbiting Binary Stars - 0 views

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scibyte29 circumbinary exoplanet multimedia

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  • January 12, 2012
  • Artist's conception of the Kepler-35 system. Credit: Lynette Cook / extrasolar.spaceart.org / Nature
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