Thread: Interesting extrasolar planet discoveries
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Old 18-November-2008, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Kullat Nunu View Post
Hey, please keep "what is a planet" stuff out of this thread, this is about extrasolar planet discoveries.

PS. It's "dwarfs", not "dwarves". The latter can be found in Tolkien's books.
I'm not sure why you are objecting.

One of the most exciting things about the area of extrasolar planet research is that these objects throw our definitions of planet vs. star vs. brown dwarf into question.

Trying to find the best possible defintion of what each of those things actually is seems entirely relevant to the discussion of interesting extrasolar planet discoveries.
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