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...object turned out to be peculiar. It's half as massive as Jupiter, but orbiting closer to 51 Pegasi than Mercury is to the sun. That means its surface temperature is 1300ūC, hotter than a blast furnace. Still, it is a planet. "I was a little schizophrenic about it," says Marcy. "On the one hand, we had been scooped. But I also felt euphoric that humanity had entered a new era in which new worlds were going to be subject to exploration...
...analyzed 60 of the 120 stars in their survey. On the morning of Dec. 30, Butler went to the office to check on the computer's progress. "When I saw the data come up, I was completely blown away," he says. It was the telltale signature of the object orbiting around 70 Virginis. Recalls Butler: "It knocked me off the chair." His colleagues at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting in San Antonio, Texas, where Marcy and Butler announced their findings two weeks ago, were no less excited. "What we are seeing," said Robert Brown, an astronomer with...
...orbit is egg-shaped rather than circular, which suggests to some astronomers that it formed more like a star than like a planet. Indeed, many experts think it is technically a brown dwarf--a star that never got big enough to ignite--rather than a planet. Only the third object matches what astronomers expected. Says Brown cautiously: "I can't say for certain that it is a planet. But so far, it looks like a planet, it walks like a planet, it quacks like...
...building the global community should be at the spearhead of campaigns to defend the Net from antisocial perverts rather than burying their heads in the sand of spineless, amoral political correctness. Societies have always tried to legislate against behavior that threatens vulnerable groups of innocent people. Only criminals object to such laws. ALISTAIR MCNAUGHT Winchester, England...
...OBJECT TO BARLOW'S VIEWS. IT'S NOT so simple as freedom here, authoritarianism there. Every kind of communication or information can be used in a manipulative way, but at least in most cases you know who is calling the tune. What troubles me about the Internet is not the existence of sexually explicit newsgroups, but that our brave new social space shields the vicious from having to stand up for what they are saying and be held responsible for it. CLAUDIUS KLEIN Berlin I AM AGAINST CENSORSHIP, BUT THERE has to be regulation to protect the weaker elements...