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Tightly Packed Planets
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Tightly Packed Planets
http://io9.com/5952542/astronomers-find-...-same-star

Astronomers find five planets packed into a ridiculously tight orbit around the same star

Quote:Scientists at the Kepler Space Observatory have discovered a "super-compact solar system" in which five planets are orbiting around their parent star at a distance at least 12 times closer than the Earth's distance to the sun. They're calling it the most crowded planetary system yet discovered.
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RE: Tightly Packed Planets
Sweet! Planetary billiards, anyone?
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RE: Tightly Packed Planets
(October 17, 2012 at 4:46 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Sweet! Planetary billiards, anyone?

LOL!
All balls, center pocket! PUF.
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