55 Cancri System

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55 Cancri System

Post #1by FaLLeN_SOuL » 23.12.2002, 00:46

Read this. A Solar System was found that looks like ours! I would like to discover it in Celesta.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/r ... 2_133.html
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Post #2by Sum0 » 23.12.2002, 01:08

It's old news... :D
Try http://www.shatters.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=560
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Post #3by selden » 23.12.2002, 01:18

It seems to me that the presence of a Jupiter-sized planet in a Jupiter-sized orbit hardly makes it a system "like ours" when there's also a planet of 0.84 times the mass of Jupiter orbiting their sun at a distance of 0.11 AU. That makes it just a wee little bit different ;) See http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/55cnc.html which predates this new announcement.
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