Path: csiph.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!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 23:35:09 -0700 Organization: Netfront http://www.netfront.net/ Message-ID: <5B97621D.2FE0@ix.netcom.com> References: <5B975ED8.5D8B@ix.netcom.com> 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="45467"; 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:498073 sci.physics:702060 sci.physics.relativity:471375 alt.astronomy:301422 Chris M. Thomasson wrote: > > On 9/10/2018 11:21 PM, The Starmaker wrote: > > 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. > > > > Imvvvho, for somebody to just need to prove that we are not the only > ones out there, is just moronic in nature. Of course we are NO alone. no habla esplonet????