Monday, September 18, 2006

Staying on a 'spacey' theme...

... for a moment, astronomers (who are clearly enjoying their time in the media spotlight at the moment) have discovered a new 'puffy' planet. BBC News. HAT-P-1 orbits a pair of stars 450 light-years away in the constellation Lacerta and, though it's radius is about 1.4 times that of Jupiter, is apparently only half the density of Jupiter making it just one-qaurter the density of water. It'd float if you could find a big enough bath.

Here she is.



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Word of the day. Crapsifruit.

1. a. - Alt. of Crapsifruit. ~ (Crap-see-frute) To be a bit crap and slightly fruity. (See John Inman.)

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