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© 2010 Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 13 Other Planetary Systems: The New Science of Distant Worlds.
Lecture 11: The Discovery of the World of Exoplanets What are exoplanets & where are they? Indirect methods for planet detection.
Earth as a Planet Mass M = 6 x 10 27 g. Mass M = 6 x 10 27 g. Mass M = 6 x 10 27 g Mass M = 6 x 10 27 g Radius R = 6371 km. Radius R = 6371 km. Radius.
Life in the Universe I. astronomy Páll Jakobsson (Palli) ([email protected]) 10 January 2013 “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent.
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