Recent content by OrionEridanus

I am confused by these lines During this period, the moon...rises at its very highest northeasterly point and sets at its very highest northwesterly point...it also rises at its most southeasterly point and sets at its most southwesterly point. The implication being its highest northeasterly...

Lunar Anthropocene is being announced way too early. Natural processes turnover the lunar regolith on order of once every 81,000 years (https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19829 ) That is 180 mi.² per year. Generously assuming human driven regolith turnover is 100 m² /year, humans are...

Where is Webb shows the MIRI optical bench at a temperature of 5.6K and 6.2K on days 103 and 104 respectively post launch 7K is the target temperature. (My speculation is the warmup on day 104 is due to focal plane electronics being powered).

How is it semantics? 55 Cancri b is a gas giant, just like the ones talked about in the article. It was discovered in 1995 and a dozenish more followed in the next few years. The opening sentence in the article is flat out incorrect.

At first I thought you must mean terrestrial mass range planets. Excluding the pulsar planets discovered in the late 80's early and mid 90s' this is correct (if 55 Cnc e in 2004 is early 2000s). As I read the article, you are clearly talking about gas giants, and the early 2000s claim is...