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banks on track to rake in 16b from overdraft fees this year
Bookmarked 759 weeks ago despite bank officials wailing about how financial reforms may hurt their bottom line banks will rake in billions this year thanks to fees they |
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planet kepler-16b 720p
Bookmarked 764 weeks ago this artist039s movie illustrates kepler-16b the first directly detected circumbinary planet which is a planet that orbits two stars the movie begins by showing the gaseous surface of the rotating planet then pans out to show the stars it orbitsthe two orbiting stars regularly eclipse each other as seen from our point of view on earth the planet also eclipses or transits each star and kepler data from these planetary transits allowed the size density and mass of the planet to be extremely well determined the fact that the orbits of the stars and the planet align within a degree of each other indicate that the planet formed within the same circumbinary disk that the stars formed within rather than being captured later by the two starsnasa039s kepler telescope discovered the planet by observing it cross in front of or transit the pair of stars from our point of view on earth the stars can also be detected eclipsing each other stellar eclipses are shown here as well as the transits of the planet across both starssuch events allow astronomers to measure the sizes of the stars and the planet with extreme accuracy kepler-16b is one of the most accurately measured planets outside our solar system with a size radius of 07538 that of jupiter a mass of 0333 that of jupiter about the mass of saturn and a density of 0964 grams per cubic centimeter the planet is cold lying just beyond the quothabitable zonequot of its star and is made up of about half gaseous material with a rocky corethe largest star in the kepler-16b system is a bit smaller than our sun about 69 percent of its mass and the smaller star called a red dwarf is even lower in mass about 20 percent of the sun039s masscredit: nasajpl-caltecht pylesource: http:photojournaljplnasagovcatalogpia14725 |
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kepler 16b: nasa discovers 039star wars039-like planet with two suns photos video
Bookmarked 764 weeks ago nasa reported on thursday the discovery of kepler 16b a planet with two suns that evokes images of luke skywalker |
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the planet kepler-16b in orbit around two suns - video 1 science guardiancouk
Bookmarked 764 weeks ago this computer-generated movie begins by showing the gaseous surface of planet kepler-16b the first directly detected world in orbit around two stars the movie pans out to reveal the two stars it circles |
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