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Cambridge Astronomers Discover Bizarre New Planet
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At the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Astronomers discovered the most massive planet outside of our solar system to date, called HAT-P-2b. Astronomers employed the HATNet network of telescopes, which are used to scan the universe every night in search of new planets.
Gravity is 15 times greater on HAT-P-2b than on Earth. Meaning that a person weighing 150 pounds here, would weigh 2,100 pound there. (Tell that one to Weight Watchers’ market researchers).
 With temperatures ranging from 1000 to 2000°C, gravity 15 times stronger than Earth's, and a year that lasts just 5.6 of our days, HAT-P-2b is not a planet you'd want to visit for vacation.
"This planet is so unusual that at first we thought it was a false alarm—something that appeared to be a planet but wasn't," said Center for Astrophysics astronomer Gáspár Bakos in a statement. Bakos is lead author of a paper submitted to the Astrophysical Journal that describes the discovery. "But we eliminated every other possibility, so we knew we had a really weird planet," he said.
(news.nationalgeographic)Source: news.nationalgeographic |
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