Planets
Until the last decade of the twentieth century, technologies did not exist that could detect planets outside the Solar System.
| Companion |
Mass | Semimajor axis |
Orbital period |
Eccentricity | Inclination | Radius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| b | 1.13 ± 0.09 M⊕ | 0.04 | 3.2357 ± 0.0008 | — | — | — |
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Famous quotes containing the word planets:
“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
“Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky?
Was there a father?
Or have the planets cut holes in their nets
and let our childhood out,
or are we the dolls themselves,
born but never fed?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)