Thursday, September 17, 2009

Fastest moving planet


A small planet known as CoRoT-7b which is 500 light years from Earth and is the fastest moving planet known . It is moving around its star every 20.4 hours and is confirmed as a rocky planet.


CoRoT-7b is a rare breed of exoplanets with masses just a few times that of Earth.

5 comments:

  1. Thanks shabnam for taking the time to bring us these information very mind opening

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  2. I wonder how many total no. of planets are there?? Including these small and big one??

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  3. @Harsh Agarwal..... thanks for you valuable comment.

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