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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: witold on February 09, 2010, 02:38:39 PM

Title: XO-3b planet
Post by: witold on February 09, 2010, 02:38:39 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-3b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-3b)

Title: Re: XO-3b planet
Post by: APODman on February 12, 2010, 06:29:13 AM

Quote from: witold on February 09, 2010, 02:38:39 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-3b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO-3b)

Even more interesting than the planet it´s the nature of scientific Project that found it. The XO Project:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XO_Project

It´s a project that amateur and professional antstronomers a equipament available for ( rich ) amateur astronomers seek for exoplanets in transit !

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Title: Re: XO-3b planet
Post by: Naru523 on February 12, 2010, 08:49:27 AM

Interesting. Might be a binary star due to the planet's high mass (brown dwarf).

Title: Re: XO-3b planet
Post by: witold on February 13, 2010, 06:37:34 AM

Anyway. I made system for this one.

I hope he will get into "Universe Sandbox 2" data base