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:
“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)
“I would sell my life to avoid
the pain that begins in the crib
with its bars or perhaps
with your first breath
when the planets drill
your future into you....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the straying of the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)