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Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years

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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????

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Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-10 23:21 -0700
  Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-10 23:28 -0700
    Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two  Years The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-10 23:35 -0700
      Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-11 00:01 -0700
        Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two  Years The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-11 10:11 -0700
          Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-11 13:21 -0700
            Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two  Years The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-11 13:54 -0700
              Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid> - 2018-09-11 14:04 -0700
        Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two  Years The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-12 10:44 -0700
  Re: New NASA Planet Hunter May Find 10,000 Alien Worlds in Just Two Years Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-09-11 05:43 -0700
  Which Way Is Left? The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-13 23:38 -0700

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