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Science > Physics |
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"Sam Wormley" |
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14 Mar 2006 11:33:55 PM |
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Einstein Effect Reveals Icy Exoplanet |
Einstein Effect Reveals Icy Exoplanet
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000CAD3D-445D-1417-845D83414B7F0000
An international team of scientists has discovered a massive new
planet thanks to an effect described by Einstein 70 years ago.
Microlensing--which occurs when a star crosses in front of another
star and bends the light from the more distant star, magnifying it
like a lens--predicted extra brightness for a red dwarf star roughly
9,000 light years from Earth. But it appeared even brighter than
expected in observations and only a planet could have produced this
effect, according to a paper published online by Astrophysical
Journal Letters.
See: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000CAD3D-445D-1417-845D83414B7F00
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| User: "Hexenmeister" |
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| Title: Re: Einstein Effect Reveals Icy Exoplanet |
15 Mar 2006 05:57:40 PM |
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"Sam Wormley" <swormley1@mchsi.com> wrote in message
news:7HNRf.28240$oL.20906@attbi_s71...
| Einstein Effect Reveals Icy Exoplanet
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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000CAD3D-445D-1417-845D83414B7F0000
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| An international team of scientists has discovered a massive new
| planet thanks to an effect described by Einstein 70 years ago.
| Microlensing--which occurs when a star crosses in front of another
| star and bends the light from the more distant star, magnifying it
| like a lens--predicted extra brightness for a red dwarf star roughly
| 9,000 light years from Earth. But it appeared even brighter than
| expected in observations and only a planet could have produced this
| effect, according to a paper published online by Astrophysical
| Journal Letters.
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| See:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000CAD3D-445D-1417-845D83414B7F00
Whoop-de-*****. Everyone is on a planet hunt these days since I discovered
"Androcles" in orbit around Algol and told Einstein to get lost.
You'll be telling us next that an international team of scientists has
discovered
America.
Androcles.
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