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Super-Earth Discovered Orbiting Several Suns

Friday, February 3, 2012 20:38
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MessageToEagle.com – Scientists at the University of Goettingen and the Carnegie Institution for Science in the U.S. Washington have discovered a potentially habitable planet, located 22 light years away from Earth.

The super-Earth, named GJ 667Cc has the mass four and a half times that of our Earth and an orbit of 28.15 days.

The planet GJ 667Cc orbits a dwarf star of the class M, 22 light years away which corresponds to approximately 209 trillion kilometers. Rest of the story and images here:

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