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Friday Fly of the Week: 32 New Planets Found!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

Howdy, Pilots! It’s Friday Fly of the Week today!


And speaking of UFO’s and flying objects  (wait have you taken the quest yet?) – we are going to give you a new trivia for the day. Do you know that there are 32 new planets found outside our solar system? They are called extrasolar planets or “exoplanets”.

The 32 exoplanets are five times heavier than the Earth or up to eight times heavier than Jupiter (the biggest planet in our solar system), astronomers discovered. These new planets are quite low-mass like Earth. So our scientists think that there are Earth-type planets everywhere!

Who knows, there could be human beings in another solar system?!

Discover new planet adventures and galaxy quests in the World of ActionJetz!