Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin3!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.netfront.net!.POSTED.108.219.229.47!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics,sci.physics.relativity,alt.astronomy Subject: Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 23:21:12 -0700 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: <5B975ED8.5D8B@ix.netcom.com> References: Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: adenine.netfront.net; posting-host="108.219.229.47"; logging-data="43034"; mail-complaints-to="news@netfront.net" X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 180910-2, 09/10/2018), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com rec.arts.sf.written:498071 sci.physics:702057 sci.physics.relativity:471373 alt.astronomy:301420 Internetado wrote: > > NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope is hard at work gathering its > first data — but just how many planets might it hunt down? > > According to new estimates put together by scientists on the team > behind the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, the > instrument should identify about 10,000 planets in its two-year > mission; 3,500 of them should be smaller than Neptune, the mission's > focus. And if the telescope can stay at work longer than its current > plan, those numbers will only go up.[...] > > https://www.space.com/41414-how-many-exoplanets-will-tess-discover.html > > -- > Eduardo > ------- > Alt119 - Alternate News > www.alt119.net - Art Culture Lusophony "Alien Worlds"???? What happen, did the word "Exoplanet" sounds to hard to understand? Why not call it "E.T. Worlds"? or "little green men worlds" Alien sounds....too alien. What happens when an alien from a alien world arrives on earth, is he an illegal alien? Stupid NASA spends all day trying to come up with new names for rocks.