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Mars-sized planet orbits red dwarf star - 0 views

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  • 11 January 2012
  • The new three planet system hosts planets that are all smaller than Earth. Image: NASA/JPL Caltech.
  • eight out of ten stars in the Galaxy are red dwarfs
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  • suggests that this breed of star could be the place to search for Earth-like rocky planets
  • 85 out of 900 potential planetary systems identified by Kepler have been found in red dwarf systems.
  • A comparison of KOI-961 and its tiny planets with our own planet Jupiter and its four large moons. Image: NASA/JPL Caltech
  • KOI-961 also bears striking resemblance to the well-studied nearby red dwarf, Barnard's Star, which is only six light years away
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NASA - NASA's Kepler Mission Finds Three Smallest Exoplanets - 0 views

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  • using data from NASA's Kepler mission
  • discovered the three smallest planets yet detected orbiting a star beyond our sun
  • smallest is about the size of Mars
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  • thought to be rocky like Earth, but orbit close to their star
  • too hot to be in the habitable zone
  • Kepler
  • continuously monitoring more than 150,000 stars
  • latest discovery comes from a team led by astronomers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena
  • used data publicly released by the Kepler mission, along with follow-up observations from the Palomar Observatory, near San Diego, and the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii
  • measurements dramatically revised the sizes of the planets from what originally was estimated.
  • more similar to Jupiter and its moons in scale than any other planetary system
  • Jan. 11, 2012
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Tiny Worlds Around a Tiny Star (Infographic) | Smallest Alien Planets & KOI-961 Solar S... - 0 views

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  • 11 January 2012
  • astronomers announced the discovery of a miniature solar system made up of three tiny planets - all of them smaller than Earth
  • 130 light-years from Earth
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  • using NASA's Kepler
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  • 01.11.12 
  • Mini Planetary System: This artist's conception illustrates KOI-961. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
  • Sizing Up Exoplanets: This chart compares artists' concepts of the smallest known exoplanets, or planets orbiting outside the solar system, to our own planets Mars and Earth. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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  • 'Honey I Shrunk the Planetary System': This artist's concept compares the KOI-961 planetary system to Jupiter and the largest four of its many moons. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA - A New Class of Planetary Systems - 0 views

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