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jpmassar

Now We Know Where Sauron Went

Aug 12, 2011 10:15

An alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy ( Read more... )

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kalimac August 12 2011, 17:56:41 UTC

It doesn't say how close the planet is to the star, which is relevant to the heating question. So I looked it up. Very close: about 3 million miles. (Mercury is about 30-40 million miles from the Sun, depending on where in its orbit it is.) Of all the "hot Jupiters", this may be the hottest.