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Astronomers find Super-Earths orbiting another sun

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2008-06-17 06:28:25 by CharlieWhite in DVICE
...Earths orbiting a star thats 42 lights years away from us. They found the planets by using clever tech they cant see the planets themselves, but measure the affect they have on a star, making it wobble as they orbit Using a new Chilean telescope system of planet discovery called HARPS (High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher), the...
 
Tags: planets, jupiter-like gaseous planets, neptune-like planets, detect planets, earth-like planets, super-earths, times earths mass, times, earths mass
 
 
 
 
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Scientists Discover 'Super-Earths' 42-Light Years Away, Regular Earth Gets Despressed

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2008-06-18 13:00:26 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...Earths" circling a star 42-light years away. That's an artist's depiction of what they might look like if they were identical in appearance to earth and weren't actually pink with purple polka-dots like I know they are. Three have been identified so far, and they were detected not by sight, but by the effects they have on the star they orbit....
 
Tags: earth, super-earths, star, star yahoonews, planets similar, star 42-light, planets, super-earth, scientists
 
 
 
 
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Week in Review: Super Earths, displays giant and tiny, and Generation M vs. the oldsters

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2008-06-20 18:44:48 by DVICE Staff in DVICE
...Earths around another sun , sparking a near-holy-war over one of our most commented-upon stories ever More top stories from the week Ampbot follows you around the house while blasting your tunes Plug in your mp3 player and this wheeled contraption wont let you miss a note The worlds most luxurious office cubicle A mere cube nicer than the...
 
Tags: generation, satellite, satellite images, week, million, generator prototype, desk, million-pixel display, rapid-fire 10-megapixel stills
 
 
 
 
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Halo 3s Enemies KIA Body Count Officially Passes Earths Population

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2008-06-24 12:37:23 by Andrew Liszewski in OhGizmo!
...Earths population sometime late on June 20 or early on June 21. At that point the Halo 3 Campaign Kill Count numbered 6,719,996,560, while the estimated world population was 6,705,066,871. Of course the body count on Bungie.net continues to grow at an impressive rate on a daily basis, and as of writing this point it now stands at...
 
Tags: body count, halo, earths population, bungie, world population, campaign kill count, james bond theme, world, games features
 
 
 
 
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Ocean Circulation Explorer, the Formula 1 of satellites

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2008-08-26 11:58:39 by CharlieWhite in DVICE
...earths gravitational fields. Its main mission is to figure out the speed and direction of ocean currents, and along the way maybe even determine when the next big volcano is going to blow Powered by an electric motor charged up with solar panels, it will get its readings of Earths gravitational field by flying in a relatively low orbit of...
 
Tags: international space station, space, european space agency, ocean circulation explorer, shiny space ornament, chic design sense, electrostatic gravity gradiometer, low orbit, orbit
 
 
 
 
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Amazon MP3 to Add DRM-Free Downloads from SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT

2008-01-11 21:24:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...Earths Biggest Selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads, which now includes over 3.1 million songs from more than 270,000 artists. Every song and album in the Amazon MP3 music download store is available exclusively in the MP3 format without digital rights management (DRM) software and is encoded at 256 Kbps to deliver high audio...
 
Tags: amazon mp3, music, amazon mp3 downloader, amazon, amazon mp3 customers, customers, drm-free music downloads, music joint venture, music management application
 
 
 
 
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Out of Control Spy Satellite May Hit Earth

2008-01-27 03:01:11 by admin in GadgetBB News Blog
 
...earths surface actual contains civilization that could be harmed by the satellite? I read here that 10 percent of the earths surface is at least lightly populated. That number sounds pretty hight though Comment if you have any insight More: click here
 
Tags: spy satellite, satellite, earth, top secret information, sounds pretty hight, earths surface, earths surface actual, sounds, real
 
 
 
 
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Earth makes a terrible racket

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2008-07-06 20:53:53 by Teresa von Fuchs in CrunchGear
...Earths magnetic field The sounds are blocked from our hearing by the ionosphere, or charged layer on top of our atmosphere, which is good because apparently they sound awful, and reportedly would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet Though scientists had previously thought that these screeching radio waves just oozed into space, recent...
 
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High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza (H.A.L.E.) Commemorates 10 Year Anniversary of LEGO MINDSTORMS by Launching Robotic Experiments to Near Space

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2008-07-28 02:00:00 by LEGO Mindstorms - Whats New in Robotic-Lab.COM
...Earths stratosphere to collect data, explore conditional effects of the Earth's atmosphere, and to set a world record as part of the High Altitude LEGO Extravaganza Joining The LEGO Group to support the science experiment are Nevada Space Grant, the University of Nevada-Reno, Energizer and National Instruments to help celebrate the 10th...
 
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