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

From "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid_chris_thomasson@invalid.invalid>
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 2018-09-10 23:28 -0700
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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
>>
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>> Eduardo
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> 
> 
> "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.

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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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