Exoplanet sizes

[vh]

This is a nice picture i found of all the exoplanets found to scale in size.

http://xkcd.com/1071/

[atomic7732]

>some

Try most. Otherwise awesome.

[vh]

some? aren't theses all of the exoplanets found so far?...at least as of july.

[atomic7732]

No I'm saying how it says some of the planets' radii are estimated based on mass, when in reality only the transiting planets have known radii (only about 1/7 of the planets are transiting afaik).

[smjjames]

Those are just the 700+ confirmed planets. There are more undiscovered planets out there than there are fictional ones.

Hell, Kepler has only been looking at a small slice of sky, we literally are just beginning because we've barely scratched the vast variety of worlds out there.

Given that the human empire (and emperor) in the Dune universe was called the emperor of a thousand worlds (or was it a million? I forget), so, such a vast array of planets is fitting.

It also looks like one of those color blindness test things.

[atomic7732]

Candidates detected by radial velocity or astrometry       571 planetary systems
 Transiting planets       205 planetary systems