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witold

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XO-3b planet
« on: February 09, 2010, 02:38:39 pm »
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Re: XO-3b planet
« Reply #1 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

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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Re: XO-3b planet
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2010, 08:49:27 am »
Interesting. Might be a binary star due to the planet's high mass (brown dwarf).
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witold

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Re: XO-3b planet
« Reply #3 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

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