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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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India Marks 1 Year Without Polio, But Global Eradication Remains Uncertain - ScienceIns... - 0 views

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  • India Marks 1 Year Without Polio
  • By all indications, the country has gone 1 year without a single case
  • India's achievement is a major boost to the beleaguered GPEI, which has spent more than $8 billion over the past 23 years to rid the world of the disease
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  • cases are surging in a number of countries -- not just the three other endemic countries of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria, but in a dozen reinfected countries, many in Africa.
  • Many countries have been declared polio-free only to be reinfected by virus imported from another country
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Kepler Spies Smallest Alien Worlds Yet - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • 11 January 2012
  • very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one-third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits
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NASA - NASA Discovers New Double-Star Planet Systems - 0 views

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  • An artist's rendition of the Kepler-35 planetary system
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