Thursday, May 3, 2007

Yahoo News: Extrasolar Planet a Heavyweight

Astronomers Find Extrasolar Planet Heavyweight Champ (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have found theheavyweight champion of extrasolar planets in the form of an odd alien worldslightly bigger than Jupiter, but more than eight times as massive.

***This means that we'll have enough space there, huh?  If it is slightly bigger than Jupiter, then it may well be near 12 x bigger than the earth.  Jupiter is about 320 times more massive than the earth.  This extrasolar planet then is about 2,500 times more massive than our planet.  Roughly this planet has about 1.5 x 10 ^28 kg mass.  I wonder about the force of g there.  It may well be livable, but what if our feet are stuck to the ground, and it takes us two years to lift them?  Ha ha.

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