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Title: Exoplanet Measured with Remarkable Precision‏
Post by: Dingo on August 19, 2014, 04:02:54 AM
NASA Science News for August 18, 2014
Astronomers are not only discovering planets around distant suns, they are also starting to measure those worlds with astonishing precision. The diameter of a super-Earth named "Kepler 93 b" is now known to within an accuracy of 1%.

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA6MJkHJXVk&feature=youtu.be

FULL STORY: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/18aug_sizeup/