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Scientists go with people's choice for Pluto moons: Vulcan, Cerberus

Stating the case Traditionally, Pluto's moons are named after figures of the underworld from Greek or Roman mythology ... He explained that Albertus Alauda is the Latin translation of Albert Lark, his grandfather's name. Uwingu charges $4.99 for each ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/23/17879795-scientists-go-with-people...

Pluto debate is about more than one little world

Another star has a Jupiter-scale planet that is three times farther away than Pluto is from the sun. The evidence emerging from the hunt for extrasolar planets would argue for going with a wide-ranging definition of planethood, based on physical properties.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34347663/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/pluto-debat...

Space telescope spots distant planets well placed for life

The innermost planet is about twice the size of Earth and orbits its ... More powerful telescopes than Kepler will be needed to fish out more detail about whether the extrasolar planets do indeed have water. "We're still progressing to find the first ...http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51588503/ns/us_news-environment/t/space-telescope-spot...

NASA chooses all-sky planet hunter, neutron star watcher for liftoff in 2017

TESS is designed to follow up on NASA's Kepler mission, which is surveying a patch of sky in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra for extrasolar planets. Like Kepler, TESS would detect other worlds by looking for the faint dips in starlight as they make ...http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/06/17623372-nasa-chooses-all-sky-plan...

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Extrasolar planet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Updated May. 24, 2013

An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. A total of 889 such planets (in 694 planetary systems, including 133 multiple planetary ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planet

The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia

Updated May. 24, 2013

World's most comprehensive interactive database of extrasolar planets updated daily since 1995.http://exoplanet.eu/

PlanetQuest - The Search for Another Earth

Updated May. 23, 2013

NASA's portal for news about the latest exoplanet discoveries, the Kepler mission, planet hunters, and more.http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/

ScienceDaily: Extrasolar Planet News - Science Daily: News ...

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Extrasolar Planet News. Astronomers discover extrasolar planets in a nearby star system. Could extrasolar planets support life? Images, full-text articles. Free.http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/space_time/extrasolar_planets/