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Rain-Man (OP) User ID: 25625783 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10/15/2012 01:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System Megan E. Schwamb, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter, William F. Welsh, Debra A. Fischer, Guillermo Torres, Andrew W. Howard, Justin R. Crepp, William C. Keel, Chris J. Lintott, Nathan A. Kaib, Dirk Terrell, Robert Gagliano, Kian J. Jek, Michael Parrish, Arfon M. Smith, Stuart Lynn, Robert J. Simpson, Matthew J. Giguere, Kevin Schawinski (Submitted on 12 Oct 2012) We report the discovery and confirmation of a transiting circumbinary planet (PH1) around KIC 4862625, an eclipsing binary in the Kepler field. The planet was discovered by volunteers searching the first six Quarters of publicly available Kepler data as part of the Planet Hunters citizen science project. Transits of the planet across the larger and brighter of the eclipsing stars are detectable by visual inspection every ~137 days, with seven transits identified in Quarters 1-11. The physical and orbital parameters of both the host stars and planet were obtained via a photometric-dynamical model, simultaneously fitting both the measured radial velocities and the Kepler light curve of KIC 4862625.The 6.18 $\pm$ 0.17 Earth radii planet orbits outside the 20-day orbit of an eclipsing binary consisting of an F dwarf (1.734 +/- 0.044 Solar radii, 1.528 +/- 0.087 Solar masses) and M dwarf (0.378 +/0 0.023 Solar radii, 0.408 +/- 0.024 solar masses). For the planet, we find an upper mass limit of 169 Earth masses(0.531 Jupiter masses) at the 99.7& confidence level. With a radius and mass less than that of Jupiter, PH1 is well within the planetary regime. Outside the planet's orbit, at ~1000 AU, a previously unknown visual binary has been identified that is bound to the planetary system, making this the first known case of a quadruple star system with a transiting planet. Full scientific paper here, 1.7 MB .. [link to arxiv.org] Last Edited by Rain-Man on 10/15/2012 01:33 PM Thread: Most Dangerous Time for Strong Earthquakes in 2012, Super Full Moon, Alignment of Earth-Sun-Jupiter, Venus Transit, Solar Eclipse over USA & JP Thread: Strange Sounds,Strange Rumblings, Sonic Booms, The Hum, Groaning, Earthquake Connection, Electromagnetic Voices, Post Your Recordings Here EARTHQUAKE FORECAST [link to igipop.webs.com] |
Rain-Man (OP) User ID: 25625783 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10/15/2012 01:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars, Kepler-47 [link to www.nasa.gov] Last Edited by Rain-Man on 10/15/2012 01:54 PM Thread: Most Dangerous Time for Strong Earthquakes in 2012, Super Full Moon, Alignment of Earth-Sun-Jupiter, Venus Transit, Solar Eclipse over USA & JP Thread: Strange Sounds,Strange Rumblings, Sonic Booms, The Hum, Groaning, Earthquake Connection, Electromagnetic Voices, Post Your Recordings Here EARTHQUAKE FORECAST [link to igipop.webs.com] |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25445959 United States 10/15/2012 02:05 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | NASA's Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Orbiting a Pair of Stars, Kepler-47 Quoting: Rain-Man [link to www.nasa.gov] v=u79y_wLPdFI The same claim to have found 'caveman' yet one hoax after the next has been exposed and still no 'caveman'. NASA gives us one alleged direct image of an exoplanetary system, and based on little more evidence claims there are over 600 planets discovered since Hubble was launched in 1990. Interesting the movies have been spreading ET planets since the 1950s. Until they get more evidence these claims are unconvincing. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25614439 Germany 10/15/2012 02:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | always this far far away stuff and then its uninhabitable. fuck them. then I dont want to know and many others dont give a fuck about this shit. |
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Manu-Koelbren User ID: 25445066 Spain 10/15/2012 04:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | again this bullshit. why cant they not first look here ad try to understand our solar system or our neighbour at least alpha centauri or sirius. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25614439 always this far far away stuff and then its uninhabitable. fuck them. then I dont want to know and many others dont give a fuck about this shit. +1 Banned as usual. It is far easier to be a weakling than to be a Real Man. Were the Earth less harsh or the circumstances of life less austere, man would destroy himself before the shrine of the languid goddess. Only Real Men can with safety destroy the tangled forests and wilderness of Earth and make from them gardens, but will those who inherit the gardens be Real Men? The law decrees that they must be, or the wilderness will reclaim its own. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25634439 United Kingdom 10/15/2012 06:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | heard they found an exo orbital last week that consists of maybe more than %30 diamond. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 13226625 It is amazing, and only 40 light years away!!!! [link to www.independent.co.uk] |
T Ceti H.C. Radnarg User ID: 25547107 United States 10/15/2012 06:35 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i thought all stars were suns but just in different stages? am i missing something in the title of this thread? How unfortunate for some rulers when men,women,and children continue to think... Keep repeating the lies loud enough and long enough and just maybe the people will start to believe the lies again and good luck with that...finding your energy open until mars becomes raging aries... |
T Ceti H.C. Radnarg User ID: 25547107 United States 10/15/2012 06:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Doesn't change the fact that we are alone in the Universe. God made us unique. UFO's are a lie. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25628870 I believe in God, and even I know Aliens (intelligent life) exist. We are merely a dot, less than a dot, in this Universe. How unfortunate for some rulers when men,women,and children continue to think... Keep repeating the lies loud enough and long enough and just maybe the people will start to believe the lies again and good luck with that...finding your energy open until mars becomes raging aries... |
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