Sentences with phrase «confirmed terrestrial planets»

Not exact matches

So far, 2,335 candidates have been confirmed as planets and they include about 30 temperate, terrestrial worlds.

Because the planet does not cross directly in front of its star, the team can not confirm its inferences by measuring the planet's radius, says planetary theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. Still, Boss finds the logic convincing: «They seem to have found what I would call the top end of the range of terrestrial - type planets.

«This confirms our view of how the Earth cooled and became habitable,» says Valley, a geochemist whose studies of zircons, the oldest known terrestrial materials, have helped portray how the Earth's crust formed during the first geologic eon of the planet.

It's likely that the smallest of the terrestrial planets also experiences Mercury - quakes — something that may one day be confirmed by seismometers.