4 posts and columns on solar system

Kepler 22-B: Earth 2.0 for Future Facebook Friending?

in News on December 6, 2011 at 6:04 am PT

Hey geeks, the comics might have been right about Counter-Earth!
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Viral Video: "Another Earth" (Another Life?)

in News on April 27, 2011 at 12:37 am PT

For anyone who loves the idea of a doppelgänger–someone out there who is you except different–this trailer for much-anticipated indie film, “Another Earth,” is for you. It’s about astrophysics and accidents and aliens and alienation, on the occasion of the “discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system.”

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Solar Module Prices to Drop 20 Percent in ’09, UBS Says

in News on August 11, 2008 at 1:16 pm PT

Sunshine is free. Solar modules are not. But they are getting cheaper: UBS analyst Stephen Chin today revised his forecast for solar module pricing to down 20 percent from a previous estimate of down 14 percent.

Celestial Plutoids? Shoulda Used Preparation P

in News on June 12, 2008 at 11:05 am PT

Delisted from the pantheon of celestial bodies back in 2006 for its weaker than expected planethood, and then pronounced second best to Eris, its recently discovered neighbor, Pluto is no longer the solar system’s bastard stepchild. Yesterday, the International Astronomical Union, which struck Pluto from the planetary rolls, decreed that all “transneptunian dwarf planets similar to Pluto” will henceforth be called “Plutoids.”
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